Subj : Telnet Client Recommendations?
To   : Jon Watson
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Jun 30 2004 04:04 pm

 JW> I'm wondering what the state of the nation is on good
 JW> telnet clients these days.

that would depend on the operating system you are running...

 JW> Every one I use has some sort of shortcoming and the
 JW> result is that I use two differernt ones and that's
 JW> annoying.

no doubt...

 JW> I need one that:
 JW> 1. Has proper ANSI support

that should be pretty easy to find since ANSI terminals are very common... the 
thing is that the terminal needs to be able to tell the remote system that it 
wants ANSI... this is done via different methods... in the BBS world, the BBS 
would send an ANSI code and see if the terminal responded to it... if it did, 
then ANSI was assumed otherwise, not... in the *NIX world, the TERM environment 
variable is set to the terminal encoding desired...

 JW> 2. Can do X/Y/Z Modem downloads...well..Z Modem at the very
 JW> least.

i know that this is going to be a "loosing" argument however, it must be 
said... telnet doesn't do uploads and downloads... that's what ftp was invented 
for... however, having a major background in DOS BBS', i know what it is that 
you are saying... from my experiance, downloads are generally no problem... 
uploads, on the other hand, can be quite problematic and the problem can be a 
combination of things and not at all easily solvable if at all...

 JW> 3. Is telnet capable. I know I mentioned that, but I want to
 JW> make sure :)

hehehe...

 JW> I don't even mind paying a few bucks for a good one...

 JW> Any suggestions?


on the windows platform, there's hyperterminal... the developers have a 
personal edition (hyperterminal pe) that does telnet and zmodem file 
transfers...

there's also telix, both win and dos versions... telix/win (not sure of real 
name) does the same as hyperterminal pe but i'm not sure about any file 
transfer problems... mustang software's qmodem pro also does a good job of 
telnet, terminal emulation and file transfers...

except for the dos version of telix, the above are all windows versions... for 
dos based systems, one has a few hoops to jump thru and then telix, {commo}, 
and others can be used just llike always...

i'm not sure of the names but i do know that there are also packages for *nix 
systems and OS/2 systems that fit your needs... i've seen the names and have 
even used one or two of them... i just can't think of their names...

FWIW: i'm also not seeing your entry in the nodelist... i don't know if that 
indicates a problem somewhere or not... you might show up in this friday's 
list...

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