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Skriven 2004-08-30 09:30:00 av Andy Alt (1:14/250)
     Kommentar till en text av Maurice Kinal
Ärende: linux console BBS term
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-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to ANDY ALT <=-

 AA> I use minicom with modemu to telnet in to boards. modemu adds telnet
 AA> support to a pty or something like that.

 MK> Why not just straight telnet?  That works with all the telnetable
 MK> boards I've tried.  Some are better then others.  My Fido host in
 MK> Langley, BC has one that is quite good with the Linux console, even my
 MK> oddball 83x135 one.  gpm cut and paste works too.  Chat, messagebases,
 MK> etc.  Too bad it isn't a Linux based one.

No download/upload capability. :) ztelnet should do that for me; I 
haven't tried it again yet. I'm still recalling that it uses the same 
files that minicom is using for the zmodem protocols. I mostly "call" a 
Wildcat board right now anyway, which minicom uploads and downloads to 
fine over a telnet connection with zmodem support.


 MK> Change the icon in WindowMaker to call "rxvt -ls -rv -mod alt" instead
 MK> of xterm.  In blackbox you'll either have to edit a custom menu or the
 MK> system-wide menu which I think is /usr/X111R6/share/somewhere-or-other.
 MK>  It is called "menu" and is editable by root with any text editor.

Got it! 

 AA> So far it seems to run a *little* bit faster,
 AA> but I've gotta use it more yet to get a real idea of how I'll like it
 AA> or dislike it.


 AA> I just found out yesterday they make an X for dos. Or used to.

 MK> Yep.  I am not sure it is supported.  Never tried it myself as DOS is
 MK> DOS.  Why put a GUI on DOS?  Only Bill Gates would do something that
 MK> silly.

Maybe to give an alternative to Microsoft Windows I suppose?

Those files were from '96. I thought I heard recently in the back of my 
mind that Xfree86 - or whoever is making X now - is also available for 
Windows, or DOS. Haven't heard much of it though or even been to their 
site for a while. So... I dun no nutting about it really.

 AA> I was a big DOS proponent when Windows95 started gaining
 AA> popularity. Or I should say, Windoze *Opponent*. :) Starting and
 AA> learning
 AA> Linux the last six months feels a bit like coming home.

 MK> The console for sure.  mc is DOSie.  However the commandline reminds me
 MK> of Solaris without the bloat of X.  I never did run across a console
 MK> version of Solaris, only X-based.  Too bad Sun never got their act
 MK> together.  Oh well.

I don't mind mc. I think you just have to have something to deal with 
filenames sometimes. If you're looking for an alternative though to a 
console ui for file management, I used vfu for a while. The only reason 
I'm not using it now is that Slackware came with mc. I tried vfu cause I 
didn't know of one that came with Redhat, and that's what I first started 
using back around February.

... ODOSCAN.EXE: keeps the Quarks off of your hard drive.
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