JW> I'm wondering what the state of the nation is on good
 JW> telnet clients these days.

that would depend on the operating system you are running...

 JW> Every one I use has some sort of shortcoming and the
 JW> result is that I use two differernt ones and that's
 JW> annoying.

no doubt...

 JW> I need one that:
 JW> 1. Has proper ANSI support

that should be pretty easy to find since ANSI terminals are very common...
the thing is that the terminal needs to be able to tell the remote system
that it wants ANSI... this is done via different methods... in the BBS
world, the BBS would send an ANSI code and see if the terminal responded to
it... if it did, then ANSI was assumed otherwise, not... in the *NIX world,
the TERM environment variable is set to the terminal encoding desired...

 JW> 2. Can do X/Y/Z Modem downloads...well..Z Modem at the very
 JW> least.

i know that this is going to be a "loosing" argument however, it
must be said... telnet doesn't do uploads and downloads... that's what ftp
was invented for... however, having a major background in DOS BBS', i know
what it is that you are saying... from my experiance, downloads are
generally no problem... uploads, on the other hand, can be quite
problematic and the problem can be a combination of things and not at all
easily solvable if at all...

 JW> 3. Is telnet capable. I know I mentioned that, but I want to
 JW> make sure :)

hehehe...

 JW> I don't even mind paying a few bucks for a good one...

 JW> Any suggestions?


on the windows platform, there's hyperterminal... the developers have a
personal edition (hyperterminal pe) that does telnet and zmodem file
transfers...

there's also telix, both win and dos versions... telix/win (not sure of
real name) does the same as hyperterminal pe but i'm not sure about any
file transfer problems... mustang software's qmodem pro also does a good
job of telnet, terminal emulation and file transfers...

except for the dos version of telix, the above are all windows versions...
for dos based systems, one has a few hoops to jump thru and then telix,
{commo}, and others can be used just llike always...

i'm not sure of the names but i do know that there are also packages for
*nix systems and OS/2 systems that fit your needs... i've seen the names
and have even used one or two of them... i just can't think of their
names...

FWIW: i'm also not seeing your entry in the nodelist... i don't know if
that indicates a problem somewhere or not... you might show up in this
friday's list...

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