IVT user opinions

A small selection of some opinions from users received over the years. (Back to IVT main page)

Rob Lowe, Creative Impulse Limited, March, 2011.
As a professional Freelance Software Developer, reliability and correct rendering of received communications is critical. Providing solutions for significant international CMM and ISO accredited organisations, any tool recommended has to be of a standard we can rely on. We have found the IVT product to be reliable, comprehensive in functionality and well supported. The GUI is simple and intuitive, as professional tools should be.

Laszlo Magyar (Februari, 2011)
I just found your amazing artwork, the IVT emulator. I'm experimenting with it as a possible user interface for uP debugging (RS232 interface). I've done it for years with simple DOS based emulators like Term90. Stayed with those becouse I haven't find any Windows terminal emulators with predictable behaviour. This has changed with your IVT.

Olli Laukkanen, August 27, 2009.
Thanks Ruurd for the new [tabbed] version of IVT. Just what I need. Easy jumping from host to host, great!

Sam Ferencik, March 3, 2009.
IVT is great, I could not do without it. Together with vim (the mighty Dutch Duo :-), they are the most enviable pieces of software I have.

Brown, Mason - (Turner) [mbrown@tcco.com], May 10, 2006.
I want to say that I love IVT. I'm running 19.0b build 17147 on Windows XP SP2 with the SSH license. It's the best thing that's happened to terminal emulation on the Windows platform ever...

John Wilkins [jdw242b@yahoo.com], April 19, 2006.
I tell everyone that uses anything like IVT about the benefits it delivers on, instead of empty promise. We've started our upgrade from wIntegrate to IVT. It's been super easy.

John [hulleyj@hotmail.com], August 19, 2005.
IVT is the best telnet software I have found on the net after after searching and testing for many hours. If you haven't tried it, try it now, it has loads of features and is as user friendly as any software could be. I thoroughly recommend it to anyone.

Bhatt, Avinash, August 17, 2005.
I am quite impressed by the simplicity of the software, and it offers a lot of convenience. I love this tool. I love the auto login feature, the password protection for auto login, the ability to switch between multiple sessions, the copy/paste, and the list goes on...

Bill Wire, June 23, 2005.
My name is Bill Wire and I recently downloaded your IVT 19a program.
I appreciate all of the hard work and thought that went into it, and there are some really nice features I'm just crazy about. Host groups and the autologin features rule! I'm still learning how to use it efficiently, but IVT is superior in every way to any of the other terminal emulation packages I've used. That includes ones that cost over $150 USD per license! (No, I didn't buy that, the company did. I prefer IVT by far.)

Chris Barr [Chris.Barr@marketmax.com], March 1, 2005.
Thank you Very Much for IVT Telnet.
It's flat-out wonderful - a solid, robust, fast and full-featured tool.
Re-connect, mouse copy & word-highlight and Auto-Login are big features.
Gradually, I've used more and more functionality, e.g. black background, "yellow" foreground.

Ruud Hanegraaf [r.hanegraaf@laurus.nl], February 28, 2005.
We're the second largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands. Last summer we made the move from an expensive terminal emulation program to IVT. IVT has all the capabilities of the commercial program, and then some more. Using scripting and encryption, we've created a completely locked-down environment, custom made to all our needs. With over 500 active users our entire retail logistics is now running on IVT. Without any malfunction. No crashes, no desperate calls to the helpdesk, no beepers waking me up in the middle of the night. This is really what they call 'set and forget'.
And an excellent super-fast top-notch support by Ruurd!

Frans Geerts, March, 2005.
IVT works great, much better than stuff like telnet or hyperterminal.
It has been a great help, thanks very much.

Jan Bymark [Jaby@Q8.DK], February 9, 2005.
It's great product you have made. Flexible, great functionalities and very nice to work with. Thanks again for your quick response. Great support, many other companies could learn from you (IBM, HP, Microsoft etc).

Colin Raven [duiker@haggis.nl], December 18, 2004.
I was searching for a reasonable alternative to Hyperterminal which would handle serial connections in a more elegant manner. Then following a lot of searching, I stumbled across IVT. Now I have serial, telnet, *and* ssh sessions open in *one* instance of *one* client. Woo Hoo!!! I'm a happy camper - I am!!! This is outstanding software. It's functional to the n_th degree, and isn't even ugly!! Many beers for Ruurd! graag gedaan! Whiieeeeeeeee!

Toby Titone [otobyt@iastate.edu], December 7, 2004.
Allow me to say thanks for this great tool that you've made available.
In several of my classes, I've frequently used the PuTty software for logging onto systems at my university. I've always missed the ability to scroll between terminal sessions, so IVT is much appreciated in this area. I think you are correct when you say that it is the fastest emulator out there... there is a noticable difference in connection speed / lag time between using Putty and your software.

Alain Hache [ahache@mail.mobistar.be], August 19, 2004

Just GREAT !!!
A SMOOTH and EFFICIENT environment just as expected.
Multiple sessions on various equipment reacting simultaneously at the tip of a finger. The very best Telnet tool I ever used.

Arthur Yeung [arthuryeung198@hotmail.com], August 5, 2004.
Thanks for creating IVT, a wonderful telnet emulator. I have been using it for over 2 years already, everyday from 9-5!

Stephen Dennis [stephen@digital-knowledge.com.au], July 30, 2004.
After much yelling and screaming at XP's broken Telnet client I stumbled across your IVT telnet client.
WOW! What a pleasant surprise.
I work with both Sun and DEC Alpha servers as a unix sysadmin (but have to have XP for my stock trading software).
Your IVT is such a pleasure to work with. Well done.

Jonas Martinsson [jonas.martinsson@ecitele.com], July 29, 2004.
IVT- WOW!
I just wanted to drop you a note and tell you how pleased I am with your IVT telnet terminal. I am using it for automating a UNIX build environment from Windows together with Visual Build. The scripting possibilities are really amazing. Thanks a lot, it's saving me a lot of effort and time!

Fernando Toledo, July 20, 2004.
Let me dispel the myth that this is not for "casual use by newbies". This is a fantastic tool and it has helped me tremendously in my everyday job. I’m a web developer/designer for an investment bank in NYC. While I don’t know much about Unix commands, I’m responsible for uploading and transferring files over Unix servers. Your program has helped me tremendously to ease the pain of having to type repeated commands.

Daniel Cioconea [daniel_cioconea@yahoo.com], April 23, 2004.
I was searching for a SSH terminal emulator and this is how I found out your good tool IVT. On a scale from 1 to 10 IVT is a 10+! Thank you for your time and congratulation for your work.
Greetings from Bucharest!

Peter Ottis [pottis@shaw.ca] April 16, 2004.
[...] it works perfect! The IVT is a really good product and has an outstanding support. I appreciate your work!

Peter Kaplan [pkaplan@navis.com], September 13, 2003.
On a more general note, I would simply like to thank you for IVT. One of my primary duties is to develop solutions for GUI and text-based wireless data terminals that interface with our software and are used to direct the actions of container handling equipment and personnel at container terminal facilities.
I've worked with a wide variety of client programs in this capacity, from freeware to professionally developed solutions specific to the task, and IVT is one of the best that I've seen, even though I'm only using the DOS version.
As a testament to the durability of well-designed software, IVT will play an operational role at the largest container terminal in Europe, even, as you say, in this brave new year of 2003.

Peter Klar [pklar@robert-schulz.de], September 7, 2003.
You have helped me very much! Only 3 hours after sending my question I received your answer with full explanation and more than one useful solution! This is really perfect service which makes your Emulator even more valuable. I have not experienced a simular quality with commercial hotlines !!! Thank you again.

Marcello.Missagia@comune.treviso.it, September 2, 2003.
I recently tried your IVT program and I find it really well done; it has a lot of useful features that makes it really good for our needs. We appreciate very much the functionalities of your program, we have tried many terminal emulators, but we find that your program works better than any other.

Mondragon, Todd [ToddMondragon@ca.slr.com], August 22, 2003

I love your IVT program! I've been hired at a company that has no tools to speak of and your program has helped me tremendously. Your right about it being for professionals, my brother complained loudly about the lack of bells and whistles. I'm so impressed I'd like to see what the other programs you've written are like. I think I'll recommend your commercial version to our company for inclusion to our environment. Great job!

Gerald Newell, Quality Manager, July 30, 2003.
I found IVT on Tucows. I have been searching for a terminal emulator for XP to use at work, and this one is great, especially for free! I am using it on a serial port connection to a SCO Unix box running almost-20-year-old MAI Basic Four business software (don't ask).
IVT does everything I need. Unlike many (not free) programs, it displays special characters correctly (like showing pop-up box borders as lines instead of garbage). IVT also handles printing very well, copies and pastes easily, and even offers block and line selection choice! I really needed the block select option in my work. (The only other program I ever used that had block selection was the MAI terminal emulator that MAI supplied us on floppies in the 1980's. But that program is crap under NTVDM, using almost all CPU cycles.) Congratulations and thanks for providing this excellent piece of software!

Kramer, Monte [MKramer@guaranty-bank.com], July 3, 2003.
Just a note to let you know how much I enjoy your IVT telnet program. I have been using IVT about 2 weeks and each day I find some invaluable feature.
Being able to cut and paste with just the mouse buttons is perhaps my greatest time saver; you see my typing skills are still in the improving mode. IVT is a wonderful tool for connecting to our UNIX server from my XP workstation. I truly believe it is a better product than what our company uses; ProComm Plus.
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Thank you for building a very nice telnet product.

Sotiris Papageorgiou [Sotiris.Papageorgiou@bodyline.gr], July 8, 2003.
Hi, i am evaluating you awesome terminal program ... Thanx in advance and keep up the good work it is unbelievable such a good terminal program to be found as a freeware! Congratulations

Andy Verbunt [andy@nexar.be], July 3, 2003.
Congratulations with IVT! I like it very much; especially the fact that you can switch between different sessions within one window, and the password learning feature because I usually have a lot of sessions on different machines that fill up my desktop.
I've been working quite a while with PuTTY, but I like this much more......
One more feature that would make this tool absolutely perfect is SSH-support !

Peter Klar [p.klar@robert-schulz.de], June 10, 2003.
your Terminal emulator is sensationell! Thank you for that master piece.
I love the quick switching between different sessions.

Paul Yeh [ppyeh@yahoo.com], May 29, 2003.
Congratulation!! Great!! Excellent software!! Currently, we are installing a LAN and your excellent software really helps ease the pain of transition. My boss is extremely happy about the cost of the software. I am extremely happy about the flexibility and stability since I have to support it. Also, the software documentation is excellent.
Thanks for your help and for an excellent piece of software.

Julian, march 31, 2003.
Thankyou thankyou thankyou for IVT!
It has made my editing task a whole lot easier than my previous emulator.
I particularly benefit from the correct handling of screen resizing in emacs as the screen used to go choppy in my other terminal emulator.

Alejandro Dinamarca [Alejandro.Dinamarca@py.cl], February 14, 2003.
I'm actually using version 16.2c build 10669 of IVT since 4 months ago in Win2K and I can say: Thanks for this product!! It's very good.
-- Jefe de Informatica, Chile.

Andries Venter <andries@sun.ac.za>, November 6, 2002.
I am using IVT to configure switches and routers on our network using the scripting capabilities of this program. I am really impressed.
Well done and thank you for providing it for free! -- Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Langdon, Andy [andrew.langdon@eds.com], October 2, 2002.
I've just discovered IVT and I think it is a great piece of software and better than most of the commercial packages we've used.

Ben Lees [ben.lees@mps.com.au], June 20, 2002.
I have been fiddling around with your IVT software and I really like it! I am running WinXP and it seems to work flawlessly ... keep up the good work, it is not often you find something coded with so many useful features in the right spot. The software really is fast -- we tested it here on our Aix server and it was over 6 times faster than the commercial emulator we are using at work ... I think IVT behaves better as a DOS based program under NT than something like 98 which is quite ironic I think. I have programmed in both DOS and Windows - and was extremely impressed with what you did in IVT.

Aleksandar Stapar [astapar@gmx.co.uk], June 10, 2002.
I downloaded IVT yesterday and I just want to congratulate you on a very well thought out telnet client. Unfortunately it's not very often that you find a flexible yet easy to use product (Leech FTP comes to my mind as an excellent product).
Keep up with the good work!

Warren Humphreys [Warren.Humphreys@EVGL.com], February 19, 2002.
Just thought I'd drop you a quick mail to say thanks for IVT. I've been using it for a couple of months now and it's fantastic. The officially supported telnet program that we use in the office (Hummingbird Exceed) is hopeless compared to IVT. I log into about 12 unix boxes every morning and it used to take me ages, and when I did the terminal emulation wasn't very good, but now with IVT's scripted autologin and excellent terminal emulation all of my problems have disappeared.
I'm a consultant and a sysadmin and I'll certainly be recommending IVT as the telnet client of choice in the future.
If you ever produce a full gui version it'll take over overnight!!!! Many thanks for an excellent product.

Rimmi Juha [Juha.Rimmi@elsacom.com], March 8, 2002.
We have used IVT at our company for a half years now. IVT script language is suberb! Thank you Ruurd for this SW! Our company have saved huge ammount of money by utilizing IVT.

Frank Schmautz [schmautz@hotmail.com], November 4, 2001.
I just started using IVT and LOVE IT!

Javier Laiz, Telefonica Sistemas [jlaiz@ts.es], October 2, 2001.
IVT Rules!
Hi, I'm a programmer in Spain, and my colleagues and I would like to thank you your effort for IVT. After testing some telnet emulators, we choose IVT because it is simple, easy, and very fast.
Your work is very good.

Dagoss@ra.rockwell.com, May 2, 2000.
I am very impressed with your software (IVT) and would like to implement it throughout our office...

Oscar Aviles [oscar.aviles@usa.net], Apr 28, 2000.
Hey! What a great piece of software this IVT terminal is! Congratulations!!! If you accept a little contribution$ in the shareware fashion, I'd gladly do it, if I could be able to skip the splash screen. Anyway, thanks!

Tom Maes [tom.maes@expandedmedia.be], July 28, 2000.
I am truly impressed with IVT, which seems to be developing quite a 'cult' following. First brought to my attention by a friend about a year ago, I have since introduced it to many clients and colleagues.
Even though I hardly use more than 5% of IVT's capabilities, it really shines as a software masterpiece in my toolset.
Programmers like yourself continue to provide my young career with a guiding light and a strong source of motivation.

Ellis Pritchard, ellis@nuke.dircon.co.uk.

Cool! Just when I thought I'd never find a decent telnet client on Windows, I came across IVT; bags of features, fast as hell and rock solid.

Oscar Rodriguez, Madrid, Spain [orod@bigfoot.com], May 13, 2001.
I've been searching for a terminal emulator like this for a couple of months!! We have a linux box as our home server and I needed a terminal emulator with scripting capabilities, and yours is GREAT!! I really love your terminal (and is the only one which allows me to use Midnight Commander without a glitch!)
Thank you very much for your hard work!!!!

Darian Sharp [kafiend@cyberspace.org], May 19, 2000.
I am writing to you to express my thanks to you for providing to the on-line community with your fabulous program IVT. it is a program which i use every day and enjoy using everyday. [...]
I also sometimes use it at work to communicate with our website server (or have it minimised so that I can bbs when co-workers aren't looking) Thank you very much for this wonderful program, I have recomended it to all of my friends who have shell accounts and will continue to install it on every windows computer that I use. the telnet program which comes included with windows is so awful to use that I know why most people in canada don't even know what telnet is and have never used it.
I have benifited from your program very much. Thank you.

Juan Lupion [juan@lupion.com], Telefonica, Spain, Oct 26, 2000.
Hi, I've downloaded and given IVT a try... it rocks! I have been looking for a console telnet client, most of them were crippled compared to their full GUI cousins, but IVT has *anything* I need.
It is such a great piece of software I will recommend to anyone. Thank you for that beast!

Kiril Karagiozov [Kiril@web.de], Nov 26, 2000.
Thank you for the great program you have shared with us. i have just tried it out (after having had enough of the windows telnet and other would be terminals) - it is exactly the way it should be. i am sure that after reading the manual pages and getting accquainted with the full features of the program i will love it even more. i can only recommend it to anyone.

Larry Kahler [larry.kahler@bull.com], May 25, 2000.
Your Telnet Client software is great and as far as I am concerned it is the best one available. I also love the price ...
Thanks for the Telnet software.

Benedikt Hochstrasser [bhoc@pentagroup.ch], Feb 17, 2000.
Subject: ivt - whoahh!
Just installed IVT on my NT box to access my Linux machines. Once I found out how to add it to the termcap file and to compile a terminfo file, I am absolutely enthusiastic. This is definitely what I've been looking for a loooong time. Thank you for this great application! I fully agree with you about the GUI stuff. While character-mode seems to be somewhat esoteric to some users, it has many many advantages over Point-and-shoot and plug-and-play and drag-and-drop. Keep up that spirit! PS: If I'd found it in NONAGS (www.nonags.com), I'd give you six duckies right away. (Please consider submitting it to NONAGS)...

Chris Johnsen [chris_johnsen@yahoo.com], Apr 13, 2000.
...some praise for IVT: IVT is the best Windows telnet program I've ever used! When I changed jobs and had to use Windows for my desktop I went through I-don't-know-how-many Windows telnet programs before I finally found IVT. I started using it at version 11.3c and recently upgraded to 12.0.
Primarily I like IVT for its xterm-like cut and pasting and for its multi session support (using "screen" on a UNIX-like system under IVT is a kick!).
I think it is great that you allow people to use your wonderful software for free. [...] thanks for the great software!

Gert Leerdam [Gert.Leerdam@getronics.com].
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Goocher [goocher@goocher.com], Sept 12, 2000.
Thanks a lot for giving away your excellent telnet client. Very nice. I have used other Windows telnet clients (my current favorite is an SSH client by Data Fellows... but costs moola!). This is hands-down the best freeware telnet app I have encountered, especially with all the cool features you have built in, like multi-session capability w/in the same window. Yea.
Yours is better, easier to use, and more robust than 99% of the telnet apps out there on the market -- commercial, shareware or freeware. :o) Thanks again! I intend to use IVT for all Perl 5 script development on my site.

Alexander McKenna [alex@alexmckenna.com], March 25, 2000.
Thanks for IVT, it is such a wonderful telnet program, I am sure I will be learning about its many features for months to come. I am very interested in the BR program now that I have seen the quality of IVT.

philippe.beillas@free.fr, June 9, 2000.
Thank you for your program. I will recommend it around. Too bad it is not more advertised (I downloaded lot of #@!! telnet client before trying yours).
It works fine (colors+keys...) for telnetting old sun running different flavours of sunos and sgi machines... Great utility. Thanks again.

Jose De Leon, of InVision DSL, Sept 15, 2000.
At first I thought IVT was another a cheesy telnet program (sorry).
But after giving it a whirl, I find it is the *ONLY* windows telnet program that I have used that actually understands how to send all the non printable key codes such as function keys to the unix server.
Definately one of the best telnet programs out there.

Preston, Chris (CCI-San Diego) [Chris.Preston@cox.com].
This is a fabulous program, a definite improvement over the telnet that comes with windows. Thank you for your efforts to create and continue to refine this product.

Tad Marko [tad@earthling.net] Dec 13, 1999.
I just downloaded IVT looking for something better than Windows Telnet to log into my Linux machine which acts as my gateway here at my house. IVT is very nice. Thanks for making such a great program free!

Todd Peterson [tpeter@mcs.net], Oct 31, 1999.
Greetings from Chicago! I came across your excellent IVT telnet program one day a week ago. I immediately installed it and absolutely love it! I very much like that you are keeping it a console application - I don't need the GUI stuff for a telnet application.

Garry P. Cramins [gcramins@cramins.net] Feb 4, 2001.
I've been using IVT for about a year now to administer a few FreeBSD boxes and love it. Thanks for a wonderful product.

Philippe, philippe.beillas@free.fr.
Really good for people using telnet a lot.
No useless graphical interface. Lots of usefull features (multisession, password file,...). A lot better than all other telnet clients I tried (<- a lot).

Paolo Ciceroni [jclksh70@yahoo.com], Jan 9,2001. ... now I just want to say that I consider IVT not just a product of choice, but a tool of distinction since it doesn't use the standard Windows application look-like (just to mention the less important of its features).
I don't know where to start to tell you about how good is your work (apart of this I think you know better than me its features).
I just want to say it's enough to let you know that you are (quite...) right to be proud of it. I used IVT for a short amount of time since I converted my PC to a Linux machine soon after I started using it, so I didn't had the time to fully explore its capabilities, but I'd like to show you I have noticed things as serial port multiplexing and the facts that it is sophisticated though reliable and easy to use, fast and secure to be installed and removed, requires almost no machine resources to run, comes with source code, and last but not least, it is completely free...

Benjamin T. White, MD [bewhite@wfubmc.edu], Sept 18, 1999.
I've just started using IVT, and am very happy with it, given the other telnet clients available for Windows! [...] Thanks again for IVT!

Carlos Jorge dos Santos Sousa [greenisleazores@netc.pt], Oct 21, 1999.
I've been trying out your software and everything I need of a terminal emulator is there except [complaint deleted :-] Other than that it is severely cool! Thanks for a great piece of software.

Magnus Hjorth [magnus.hjorth@home.se].
Hi! I downloaded IVT for Win95 a couple of days ago and I must say it is one of the best telnet clients I have ever seen!

Tommy Sundling [tommy.sundling@ams.amv.se] I'm evaluating your IVT VT220 emulator program for my company and I'm pleased with what I've seen of the program so far, your program is more advanced than many other commercial programs out there.

jp [dabman@home.se].
IVT is very nice, thank you for taking the time to write it.
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