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? :)



 JW>  Regards,
 JW>   - Jon.

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