Subj : Telnet Clients
To   : TheNerd
From : AKAcastor
Date : Thu Jun 27 2024 12:25 pm

 T> I'm curious if anyone knows of a telnet client for BBS's 
 T> that will see a web address in the output to screen and 
 T> allow us to click on that address to open a browser.   
 T> Does such a beast exist?

I don't have an answer for this but I am interested also.

 T> I use SyncTerm currently which works great but I'm 
 T> always seeing links and I never go to the links because 
 T> its too much of a pain to get them to a browser.  
 T> SyncTerm won't even let me copy and paste text from the 
 T> screen. 

If you connect to a BBS that captures the mouse, then SyncTerm will pass the mouse controls to the BBS (so copying text is disabled).  You can press Alt-B to enter scrollback mode, which will allow you to select text with the mouse (selected text is automatically copied to the clipboard), and Esc exits scrollback mode.

I don't know if there's a way to paste back into SyncTerm on BBSes that capture the mouse, but at least it's possible to copy from SyncTerm using the scrollback buffer.


Chris/akacastor

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