mark lewis wrote to Jon Watson:

ml>  JW> I'm wondering what the state of the nation is on good
ml>  JW> telnet clients these days.
ml> 
ml> that would depend on the operating system you are running...

Excellent point....WinXP for the most part although I'm playing with the idea
of formatting my laptop and putting linux on it.

ml>  JW> 1. Has proper ANSI support
ml> 
ml> that should be pretty easy to find since ANSI terminals are very 
common...
ml> the thing is that the terminal needs to be able to tell the remote system 

Aha...thanks for pointing out the difference. I've noticed that all the
terminal programs I've tried recognize the ansi colour, but not necessarily 
the
proper ansi characters. Using Putty for example, my BBS looks freaking 
horrible
because all the images are made up of letters and symbols rather than the 
block
and lines etc that were used to create the image. Hyperterminal and MTelnet
have no problems with it.

ml>  JW> 2. Can do X/Y/Z Modem downloads...well..Z Modem at the very
ml>  JW> least.
ml> 
ml> i know that this is going to be a "loosing" argument
however, it must be 

That's what I thought - I recall downloading via ZModem over telnet with some
terminal programin the distant past, but I can't seem to get Hyperterminal or
Telix to do it now. Maybe it's my lan connection...hmm...

I agree...ftp is for file transfers, telnet is for terminal emulation and for
the most part I don't have a problem with that. In fact, the Linux BBS 
probram
I use has the ability to allocate each user a little ftp space to do just 
that
type of thing with. The problem is offline mail. I want to download my QWK
packet and I can't.

ml> on the windows platform, there's hyperterminal... the developers have a 

Thanks for all the suggestions, I'm going to look into them all.

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

Really? I *am* new, but I'm in NODELIST.177 which I believe is the current 
one,
no? Are you up to date? :)



 Regards,
  - Jon.

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