Emissary (Internet Software)

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Emissary
Developer(s) Attachmate/The Wollongong Group
Initial release1995
Final release
2.0 / August 28, 1996 (1996-08-28)
Operating system Windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT 3.5/NT 3.51 [1] [2]
Available inEnglish
Type Internet Suite
License Proprietary
Website Homepage at the Wayback Machine (archived October 29, 1996)

Emissary was a popular early commercial internet suite from Attachmate for Windows. It featured a web browser, FTP support, e-mail program, a newsreader program, and an HTML editor. [3]

Contents

Though once considered a popular internet suite, it fell out of favor after Internet Explorer 3 was released. Development was abandoned following the Microsoft antitrust case. [4] [5] [6]

Releases

The following are releases of Emissary 1.x: [7]

Emissary 2.0

Emissary 2.0 was a collection of six applications: [6]

Each of these applications ran within Emissary and had its own helpfile. [9]

Features

Emissary 2.0 had the following features: [10] [11]

  • the ability to e-mail web pages or hot links [12]
  • HTML3 support
  • HTML forms support
  • URIs supported: FTP/Anonymous FTP, Telnet, Mailto, News groups, HTTP, Gopher, Finger protocol
  • Netscape/Internet Explorer extension/plugin support [13]
  • WYSIWYG HTML Editor
  • View/edit source of a web page
  • vCalanader/vCard support
  • A favorites toolbar via "Custom Agent"
  • View header response in "Document Info"
  • History via "Places Visited"
  • Document history
  • Page text search/replace
  • Page magnification
  • HTTPS/site certificates
  • Ability to save/load history via "History Lists" (.whl)
  • Ability to ROT13 a webpage
  • Proxy support (http & https)
  • SOCKS support
  • DNS Query
  • Help file with tips
  • Network drives support
  • Drag-and-drop support
  • Navigation: Back, Forward, Refresh
  • Ability to print webpages (no print preview)
  • Page auto-refresh via "Auto-play" in "Places Visited"
  • Plugins: Shockwave (Director 4.0.4), INSO Word Viewer
  • Themes: business, entertainment, kids, default
  • 200+ page printed Emissary User Guide
  • Spell checking support via the Sentry-Spell Checking Engine [6]
  • Encode/decode Base64, quotable-printable, uuencode of text, binary, and clipboard files
  • The following file types were supported: address book (.adr), MCI video (.avi, .mov), vCard (.vdf), mail/news (.wod), Macromedia Director (.dir, .dcr, .dxr), word documents (.doc), hypertext (.htm, .html, .shtml), gopher directory (.gom), text (.txt,. text, .htm), images (.gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .xbm, .ico), sound (.wav, .au, .snd, .voc, .aif)

Technical

Web pages created with Emissary had the following meta tag: 

<METANAME="GENERATOR"CONTENT="Emissary 2.0">

Emails sent with Emissary had the following X-Mailer Header: X-Mailer: Emissary V2.00, by Attachmate Corp. [14]

Releases

System Requirements

Emissary 2.0 has the following system requirements: [2] [19] [20] [21]

Reception

The internet suite was well received. [22]

Editions

The following are the editions that were sold: [19] [23] [24] [25] [26]

EditionRelease DatePriceMediumDevelopers
Emissary 1.11996 ? ? The Wollongong Group Inc., Attachmate Internet Products Group
Emissary 2.0 Desktop Edition1996US$149 Diskettes Attachmate
Emissary 2.0 Office Edition1996about US$400 Diskettes Attachmate

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