Re: Best terminal for BBS
  By: Dimitri Papadopoulos to All on Thu Feb 26 2009 12:08 pm

 > Hi All,
 >
 > After trying a couple of Telter terminals for the Windows XP operating
 > system, I settled with a program called RIPtel 3.1. I switched from
 > SecureCRT.
 >
 > From a BBS user standpoint, it has been my observation, that nowadays most
 > people run their display screen at high resolution (1024x768) and even at
 > 1280x1024, like me.
 >
 > Running the built-in windows telnet terminal in 80x24 ANSI, is not
 > practical, as the window will be too small.

Windows telnet.exe is not a great BBS terminal (e.g. it doesn't do file
transfers), but it most certainly is not limited to 80x24 and the font size is
configurable (like *all* Windows console-mode programs)!

I would recommend HyperTerminal (which comes *with* Windows XP) or SyncTERM
(http://syncterm.net).

 > SecureCRT did a good enough
 > job for me; but upon discovering today RIPterm, I don't think I would want
 > to look back.

RIPterm is good if you need RIP support, but other than that, it's a pretty
average.

 > It has the ability to run Full Screen at 80x24, properly display ANSI
 > graphics and best of all, display RIP screens when available!

Other than RIP, you just described Windows telnet.exe! :-)

 > For the first
 > time I was able to fully enjoy BBsing on my Windows XP box as I did back in
 > the early 90's !

 > It's simply the best Telnet ANSI/RIP terminal I came accross for a modern
 > Windows XP Operating system.  This terminal will help overcome lots of the
 > issues current BBS users experience.

That's optomistic thinking, but I seriously doubt its true.

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