Subj : Re: Telnet Client Recommendations?
To : Jon Watson
From : Kirk Melton
Date : Tue Jul 13 2004 07:40 pm
ZOC terminal works pretty well for ansi emulation...it's kinda pricey though.
It does: XMODEM, YMODEM, KERMIT, ZMODEM transfers. Ansi emulation is pretty
good too.
JW> mark lewis wrote to Jon Watson:
ml> JW> I'm wondering what the state of the nation is on good
ml> JW> telnet clients these days.
ml>
ml> that would depend on the operating system you are running...
JW> Excellent point....WinXP for the most part although
JW> I'm playing with the idea
JW> of formatting my laptop and putting linux on it.
ml> JW> 1. Has proper ANSI support
ml>
ml> that should be pretty easy to find since ANSI terminals are very
JW> common...
ml> the thing is that the terminal needs to be able to
ml> tell the remote system
JW> Aha...thanks for pointing out the difference. I've noticed that all the
JW> terminal programs I've tried recognize the ansi
JW> colour, but not necessarily
JW> the
JW> proper ansi characters. Using Putty for example, my BBS looks freaking
JW> horrible
JW> because all the images are made up of letters and
JW> symbols rather than the
JW> block
JW> and lines etc that were used to create the image.
JW> Hyperterminal and MTelnet
JW> have no problems with it.
ml> JW> 2. Can do X/Y/Z Modem downloads...well..Z Modem at the very
ml> JW> least.
ml>
ml> i know that this is going to be a "loosing"
ml> argument however, it must be
JW> That's what I thought - I recall downloading via
JW> ZModem over telnet with some
JW> terminal programin the distant past, but I can't seem
JW> to get Hyperterminal or
JW> Telix to do it now. Maybe it's my lan connection...hmm...
JW> I agree...ftp is for file transfers, telnet is for
JW> terminal emulation and for
JW> the most part I don't have a problem with that. In fact, the Linux BBS
JW> probram
JW> I use has the ability to allocate each user a little
JW> ftp space to do just
JW> that
JW> type of thing with. The problem is offline mail. I
JW> want to download my QWK
JW> packet and I can't.
ml> on the windows platform, there's hyperterminal...
ml> the developers have a
JW> Thanks for all the suggestions, I'm going to look into them all.
ml> FWIW: i'm also not seeing your entry in the
ml> nodelist... i don't know if
ml> that indicates a problem somewhere or not... you
ml> might show up in this
JW> Really? I *am* new, but I'm in NODELIST.177 which I
JW> believe is the current
JW> one,
JW> no? Are you up to date? :)
