RdL> Thank you.  I've just download it and gave it a try.  
 RdL> The first thing I realized is that I have to tell the 
 RdL> gnome terminal to use IBM850 character encoding 
 RdL> otherwise the high ascii characters on the BBS show as 
 RdL> weird symbols.  I was surprised because while using 
 RdL> the syncterm menus I did not have to change the 
 RdL> character encoding to see what the developer intended 
....

It turns out that Ubuntu has some missing symlinks that are needed by
SyncTERM. I could not find out exactly which links to create, but did find
that installing the libsdl-console-dev package on Ubuntu with all of its
dependencies has solved the problem.  SyncTERM renders 100% correctly,
CTRL-C is no longer an issue, and I love it.  Thanks for pointing me to
this program. I don't even need to change the character encoding in my
console window to use it.

Actually I do have one complaint.  When I press CTRL+ALT+F2 to go full
screen and run SyncTERM for a true BBS experience, nothing renders right. 
The screens are all mis-aligned etc...  Oh well, I'll just have to keep
running it in a window.


Ryan


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