Hey Alan!

 AI> Did you build syncterm successfully?

Yes.  I nabbed https://syncterm.bbsdev.net/syncterm-src.tgz a little while ago, and it unpacked to ./syncterm-20230302 which looks current.  Here are some gory details;

 :r !ldd ~/WeBeBashing/source/syncterm-20230302/src/syncterm/gcc.linux.x64.exe.debug/syncterm | sed 's/\t/        /'
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe96f4f000)
        libncursesw.so.6 => /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007fefe1f8a000)
        libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fefe1eab000)
        libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fefe1cca000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fefea75f000)

Looks like I was mistaken about the shared ncurses but at least libtinfo isn't one of them.

 AI> I use ssh when it's avalable and plain old telnet when it's not.

I only used telnet the other day which is the first time in AGES.  I used to use telnet (rlogin before that) back in a time long, long ago in a land far, far away.

 AI> I only need minicom or syncterm if I need to grab files with
 AI> zmodem.

Okay.  Does that happen often?

Life is good,
Maurice

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