On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 4:54:57 PM UTC-5, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:10:23 -0700 (PDT), Payton Byrd wrote:
> >
> > On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 5:33:16 PM UTC-5, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
> >> I was just (check date stamp here against your logs if interested) trying
> >> to log in PETASCII doesn't work (no surprise with my terminal). ASCII
> >> give me what looks like a local echo, so I cannot type "GUEST". While
> >> ANSI allows to type "GUEST" but then doesn't log me in as guest and asks
> >> for a password. I also see some odd characters there.
> >>
> >> I used the Linux telnet client on various ports you provide. TERM here is
> >> set to "linux". That usually works with other BBS.
> >
> > Andreas,
> >
> > Please try logging on with Synchterm (it's easy to find with Google,
> > probably even in your GNU/Linux's app repository).  I am aware of some
> > issues with Mac and GNU/Linux telnet causing problems and am working
> > on that now.
>
> I rather not. :-)
>
> Please keep in mind you cannot tell everybody to use or even install a
> certain terminal to use your BBS. Most BBS work with what telnet clients
> operating systems have pre-installed. It should be possible to modify
> your BBS to work with those.

My problem is that I have neither a Mac nor a GNU/Linux machine to test with.

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