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Emissary

Developer(s)	Attachmate/The Wollongong Group
Initial release	1995

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 in	English
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]

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 1.0
Emissary 1.1^[8]

Emissary 2.0

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

File Management - An FTP client
Host Access - Remote access via TELNET
Mail - An email client with POP3 and SMTP support as well as an address book
News - A newsgroup reader
Web Surfing - An HTML 3 web browser
Hypertext editor - A WYSIWYG HTML editor

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:

<META NAME="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

Emissary 2.0 Public Beta ^[15]
Emissary 2.0 Public BETA 1^[16]
Emissary 2.0 beta 1 ^[17]
Emissary 2.0 beta 2 ^[17]
Emissary 2.0 beta 3 ^[17]
Emissary 2.0 beta 4 ^[18]
Emissary 2.0 International Evaluation
Emissary 2.0 Desktop Edition
Emissary Version 2.0 Official Release [90-day evaluation]

System requirements

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

Processor: An IBM PC 80486 or higher
Ram: 8 MB of RAM
Hard drive space: 15 MB to 25 MB free hard drive space
Driver: WinSock v1.1-compliant TCP/IP stack.
Network: an ODI or NDIS-compatible network card (for intranet use)
Modem: 28.8 kbit/s or faster modem (for internet use)

Reception

The internet suite was well received.^[22]

Editions

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

Edition	Release Date	Price	Medium	Developers
Emissary 1.1	1996	?	?	The Wollongong Group Inc., Attachmate Internet Products Group
Emissary 2.0 Desktop Edition	1996	US$149	Diskettes	Attachmate
Emissary 2.0 Office Edition	1996	about US$400	Diskettes	Attachmate

References

^ "Emissary". Software Index. Internet.com. November 1, 1996. Archived from the original on June 26, 2004. Retrieved 14 March 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ ^a ^b "INSTALLING EMISSARY 2.0". Readme. The Winsock-L FTP Area. 1999. Retrieved 15 March 2010. ^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Visual Merchandising Dictionary - E". FashionWindows.com, Inc. February 28, 2000. Archived from the original on 29 February 2000. Retrieved 14 March 2010.
^ LIVINGSTON, BRIAN (1999-03-29). "Will freeware and personalization bring new life to browsers?". InfoWorld. Vol. 21, no. 13. MasterFILE Premier, EBSCOhost. pp. 42, 1/3p. ISSN 0199-6649.
^ Livingston, Brian (May 8, 2000). "Brave new Windows: How the Baby Bills will make your life easier and less expensive". InfoWorld. Vol. 22, no. 19. MasterFILE Premier, EBSCOhost. pp. 75, 1/2p. ISSN 0199-6649.
^ ^a ^b ^c Stroud, Forrest. "Emissary 2.0". Software Reviews. Internet.com. Archived from the original on July 3, 2004. Retrieved 15 March 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ "Main page". Attachmate Corporation. 1996. Archived from the original on 22 December 1996. Retrieved 14 March 2010.
^ http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-17462922.html ^{[dead link‍]}
^ Take from installation directory
^ "Features of Emissary 2.0". Emissary Central. Attachmate. 1996. Archived from the original on 29 October 1996. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
^ "Emissary 2.0's New Features". Emissary Central. Attachmate. 1996. Archived from the original on 29 October 1996. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
^ Stewart, Stewart (1995-11-30). "Frequently asked questions about the World Wide Web". The Rolling Stone computer issue. No. 722. Rolling Stone. pp. 24, 5p. ISSN 0035-791X.
^ "BrowserWatch - Browser Blvd". Internet.com. 1996-09-13. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
^ http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/gnu/ftp/pub/gnu/windows/emacs/docs/ntemacs/todo/gdb ^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ K. Joseph, Dr. Mark (3 May 1996). "Multipart/related in Emissary 2.0 Public Beta". MHTML Archives. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
^ "SOFT> Emissary 2.0 Public BETA 1 Released". 2 May 1996. Retrieved 14 March 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c "What's New Archives". Stroud's CWSA Apps. Mecklermedia Corporation. May 1996. Archived from the original on 10 November 1999. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
^ "ProfessionalsWeb.com - Product Profile: Emissary 2.0 beta 4". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
^ ^a ^b "Emissary 2.0 Desktop Edition". Smart Computing. 5 (6). Smart Computing in Plain English. June 1997. ISSN 1093-4170.
^ "Emissary 2.0 Desktop Edition". Smart Computing in Plain English. 4 (5). May 1996. ISSN 1093-4170.
^ "Emissary Download". Emissary Central. Attachmate. Archived from the original on 29 October 1996. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
^ Stroud, Forrest (1 November 1996). "Software Reviews: Emissary Introduction". WinPlanet. Internet.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2006. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
^ Gustavson, Ron (August 1996). "Browsing at large". CD-ROM Professional. 9 (8). MasterFILE Premier, EBSCOhost: 38, 3p.
^ "Emissary 2.0 / Host Publ". Archive: 1997 to 1999. Codehigh Ltd. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
^ "16-bit Internet Suites". Strouds CWS 16-bit Apps. Mecklermedia Corporation. September 22, 1997. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
^ L. Lee, Yvonne (February 26, 1996). "AttachMate Revamps Browser". InfoWorld. Vol. 18, no. 9. InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. p. 52. ISSN 0199-6649.

External links

"Homepage". Archived from the original on October 29, 1996. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
Emissary 2.0 International Evaluation, Evolt.org
Emissary 2.0 FTP Mirror (defunct download), mirror
Stroud's Review of Emissary, Mecklermedia Corporation

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