Subj : ANSI telnet client for linux?
To   : Ryan de Laplante
From : Ryan de Laplante
Date : Thu Apr 26 2007 07:41 pm


 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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