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    From Ray Sbaitso@1:19/38 to All on Sun Sep 9 09:02:56 2018
    Any recommendations for the best terminal to use for connecting to BBSes via Linux? I've done some searching around and there doesn't seem to be a very large selection. I'm wondering what others are using.


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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Ray Sbaitso on Sun Sep 9 22:49:12 2018
    Re: Best Linux Terminal
    By: Ray Sbaitso to All on Sun Sep 09 2018 09:02 am

    Any recommendations for the best terminal to use for connecting to BBSes via Linux? I've done some searching around and there doesn't seem to be a very large selection. I'm wondering what others are using.

    I use SyncTERM myself and it works well for me. You can get the source from http://syncterm.bbsdev.net. There are instructions there to get the source from cvs and that it the way I get it.


    NetRunner is also good. You can get it at http://mysticbbs.com

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Christian Sacks@2:250/5 to Joacim Melin on Tue Sep 11 10:13:43 2018
    On 09/11/18, Joacim Melin said the following...

    Syncterm on Mac OS X isn't really up to the same level of quality as the Windows version. There are bugs, example with copy-paste text, crashes and sometimes the app just plain hangs and you can't even quit it unless you kill the process manually.

    Oh that's interesting, the only thing that doesn't work on it for me was copy-paste, everything else seemed to be fine... that said, I do favor iTerm2 now just because I am often in a terminal window anyhow and it just works. copy-paste works too :)

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  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to Ray Sbaitso on Fri Sep 14 17:38:08 2018
    Hello Ray!

    Sunday September 09 2018 09:02, you wrote to All:

    Any recommendations for the best terminal to use for connecting to
    BBSes via Linux? I've done some searching around and there doesn't
    seem to be a very large selection. I'm wondering what others are
    using.

    I use terminal (KDE) then ssh.

    I do not use telnet (Security).


    Vince

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  • From Dark Angel67@1:135/369 to Ray Sbaitso on Wed Jul 31 12:07:44 2019
    I use Terminology and it works just fine...on Parrot Security OS.

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  • From Zoo House@1:135/369 to Dark Angel67 on Tue Oct 15 15:26:20 2019
    Hey Dark Angel167,

    I've been using Guake and it has been awesome. You hit F12 and a terminal window rolls down from the top.

    Check it out if you haven't tried it yet.

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  • From john ford@3:770/100 to Zoo House on Mon Dec 16 08:16:31 2019
    I generally use st ( suckless terminal ) with tmux( provides me with all the benefits of tmux, and st doesnt have tabs )

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  • From Richard Falken@1:123/115 to Ray Sbaitso on Sun Jul 5 11:07:51 2020
    Re: Best Linux Terminal
    By: Ray Sbaitso to All on Sun Jul 05 2020 10:54 am

    Any recommendations for the best terminal to use for connecting to BBSes via
    Linux? I've done some searching around and the
    doesn't seem to be a very large selection. I'm wondering what others are
    using.

    Linux terminal (tty) with kermit works well. Or even good old xterm or xfce4-terminal. You don't really need fancy software. I
    bet fancy software is cool and has nice features, though.

    The KDE terminal even has XMODEM file transfers integrated.

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  • From Dan Clough@1:123/115 to Ray Sbaitso on Sun Jul 5 11:26:00 2020
    Ray Sbaitso wrote to All <=-

    Any recommendations for the best terminal to use for connecting
    to BBSes via Linux? I've done some searching around and there
    doesn't seem to be a very large selection. I'm wondering what
    others are using.

    Syncterm or Netrunner.



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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Richard Falken on Mon Jul 6 12:48:04 2020
    Re: Best Linux Terminal
    By: Richard Falken to Ray Sbaitso on Sun Jul 05 2020 11:07:51


    The KDE terminal even has XMODEM file transfers integrated.

    ZMODEM... not XMODEM... AFAIK anyway...


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