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ECU (Extended Call Utility) is a personal and research communications
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program originally written for users of SCO UNIX V.3.2/386 and XENIX V
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on 80286 and 80386 systems. Support for other systems has been added
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and further porting is possible with "minor" effort to other systems
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based on or similar to UNIX System V.
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ECU provides the classic terminal communications facility of passing
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keyboard data to a serial line and incoming data to the computer video
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display. In addition, a dialing directory, a function key mapping
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feature, and session logging are available.
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A very flexible procedure (script) language is also incorporated to
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automate many communications tasks. In addition to augmenting
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interactive tasks, by using shell scripts and ECU procedures, ECU can
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perform batch-style communications sessions in an entirely "unattended"
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fashion.
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ECU presents to the host a flexible "ANSI" terminal type, accepting any
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valid video control sequences from MS-DOS or SCO documentation as of
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late 1990. It also fares well, though imperfectly, with Sun and VT-100
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in-band video control sequences. Standards are great: everybody should
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have one, especially if they call it "ANSI."
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The program supports almost any local terminal (console) which can be
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described in a termcap database entry. For more information, refer to
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"Supported Terminals."
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ECU supports numerous file transfer protocols: as of this writing,
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XMODEM, XMODEM/CRC, XMODEM-1K, YMODEM/CRC Batch, ZMODEM/CRC-16,
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ZMODEM/CRC-32, Kermit and SEAlink are supported.
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