Subj : Re: BBS Terminal Apps
To   : Joe Etten
From : Scott Brown
Date : Fri May 07 2010 12:22 pm

Hi Joe,

JE> Hey all, I'm new to linux, not so new to BBSing. In any case, I'm running
JE> Ubuntu 10.04 and have noticed a bunch of apps available for telnetting to
JE> BBS. However, upon installation and connecting to my favorite BBSes I noti
JE> that the blocks that would normally make up an ANSI image are some form of
JE> asian character. I've really only tried qTerm so far. I was wondering if t
JE> was a better app to look at, or if anyone had any idea what I need to do t
JE> get ANSI to display correctly in qTerm.

Not sure how to get qTerm to display correctly, but there is a version of
syncterm for linux that works good.

JE> Secondly, I noticed that there were a few BBS softwares out there that run
JE> under linux now, not to mention running under wine. Are any of them fairly
JE> well developed, or are they still in their infancy?

Not sure, never tried any.

JE> Third, are there any apps out there that exist in the linux world to do AN
JE> painting?

Haven't looked for any. :)

Scott....

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