Re: SyncTerm no long supporting ANSI
  By: Matt Munson to Sean Dennis on Fri Apr 02 2010 12:58 am

 > Replying to a msg dated 01 Apr 10 23:14, from you to Joe Schweier.
 > I would like to see a RIP 2.0 emulation, that may make bbsing cool without
 > reinventing the wheel.

That would be pretty fun to see, as the only other terminal emulator I know
to support RIP was the Windows version of ProCOMM Plus.

Perhaps someone could correct me here, but hasn't the limiting factor behind
RIP emulation been the copyrights involved with Telegfix or whoever bought
them?  I also recall the Borland BGI fonts they used.  Would the license
terms on that be compatible with an open source project?  I suppose it would
be a simple matter of finding open source substitutes, so that may be a moot
point.

For what it's worth, I'd like to see terminal emulation evolve such that it
works better with the latency involved with running BBSes over the Internet. 
Why, for example, do I have to wait for a character I'm typing to run over to
the host just to be echoed back again?  Another sticking point is the assumed
80x25 terminal size.  It'd be nice to see terminal emulation work more
appropriately in these situations as well as handle events such as a terminal
window resizing.

File transfers could use some improvement as well.  I've been severely
disappointed with ZModem transfers from a BBS over Telnet.  It'd be good to
see a protocol evolve to work better with TCP/IP.  As it stands, I'm not so
sure that the current transfer protocols used by your typical BBS translate
well into a packet switched network.
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