Any recommendations for the best terminal to use for connecting to BBSes via Linux? I've done some searching around and there doesn't seem to be a very large selection. I'm wondering what others are using.


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Re: Best Linux Terminal
By: Ray Sbaitso to All on Sun Sep 09 2018 09:02 am

Any recommendations for the best terminal to use for connecting to BBSes via Linux? I've done some searching around and there doesn't seem to be a very large selection. I'm wondering what others are using.

I use SyncTERM myself and it works well for me. You can get the source from http://syncterm.bbsdev.net. There are instructions there to get the source from cvs and that it the way I get it.


NetRunner is also good. You can get it at http://mysticbbs.com

Ttyl :-),
Al


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On 2018 Sep 09 09:02:56, you wrote to All:

Any recommendations for the best terminal to use for connecting to
BBSes via Linux? I've done some searching around and there doesn't
seem to be a very large selection. I'm wondering what others are
using.

there is not a very large selection... i use syncterm or netrunner... syncterm is from the SBBS guys and netrunner is from g00r00, the Mystic guy...

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I use iTerm2 which is like a replacement terminal for my Mac OSX, and when I use Linux I like Terminator (I think that's what it's called)... which is
also pretty nice.

I think with linux as long as you can get the CP437 character set, you should be good. If you want to use ZMODEM or the like to download / upload files,
you need to do a little extra work to get that working, but if you use
SyncTerm which is cross platform, it does all of it just perfectly.

.... well that's my two cents worth anyway :)

Best,
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Syncterm on Mac OS X isn't really up to the same level of quality as the Windows version. There are bugs, example with copy-paste text, crashes and sometimes the app just plain hangs and you can't even quit it unless you kill the process manually.


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On 09/11/18, Joacim Melin said the following...

Syncterm on Mac OS X isn't really up to the same level of quality as the Windows version. There are bugs, example with copy-paste text, crashes and sometimes the app just plain hangs and you can't even quit it unless you kill the process manually.

Oh that's interesting, the only thing that doesn't work on it for me was copy-paste, everything else seemed to be fine... that said, I do favor iTerm2 now just because I am often in a terminal window anyhow and it just works. copy-paste works too :)

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Hello Ray!

Sunday September 09 2018 09:02, you wrote to All:

Any recommendations for the best terminal to use for connecting to
BBSes via Linux? I've done some searching around and there doesn't
seem to be a very large selection. I'm wondering what others are
using.

I use terminal (KDE) then ssh.

I do not use telnet (Security).


Vince

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Thanks to everyone for the information. I appreciate it. Some of the
programs I was already aware of and some I was not. Hopefully development continues for at least one of them on the Linux side.



On Sunday September 09, 2018, Ray Sbaitso said to All...

Any recommendations for the best terminal to use for connecting to
BBSes via Linux? I've done some searching around and there doesn't
seem to be a very large selection. I'm wondering what others are
using.

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El 11/09/18 a las 04:19, Joacim Melin escribi≤:

Syncterm on Mac OS X isn't really up to the same level of quality as the Windows version. There are bugs, example with copy-paste text, crashes and sometimes the app just plain hangs and you can't even quit it unless you kill

the process manually.

Is not Syncterm bugs, just must change your OS.

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I use Terminology and it works just fine...on Parrot Security OS.

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Hey Dark Angel167,

I've been using Guake and it has been awesome. You hit F12 and a terminal window rolls down from the top.

Check it out if you haven't tried it yet.

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I generally use st ( suckless terminal ) with tmux( provides me with all the benefits of tmux, and st doesnt have tabs )

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Re: Best Linux Terminal
By: Ray Sbaitso to All on Sun Jul 05 2020 10:54 am

Any recommendations for the best terminal to use for connecting to BBSes via Linux? I've done some searching around and the
doesn't seem to be a very large selection. I'm wondering what others are using.

Linux terminal (tty) with kermit works well. Or even good old xterm or xfce4-terminal. You don't really need fancy software. I
bet fancy software is cool and has nice features, though.

The KDE terminal even has XMODEM file transfers integrated.

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Ray Sbaitso wrote to All <=-

Any recommendations for the best terminal to use for connecting
to BBSes via Linux? I've done some searching around and there
doesn't seem to be a very large selection. I'm wondering what
others are using.

Syncterm or Netrunner.



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Re: Best Linux Terminal
By: Richard Falken to Ray Sbaitso on Sun Jul 05 2020 11:07:51

The KDE terminal even has XMODEM file transfers integrated.

ZMODEM... not XMODEM... AFAIK anyway...


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