Heya hollowone,
https://github.com/jhpyle/mTCP/?tab=readme-ov-file
that's my default telnet client for a while. and it also fixed PGUP/DOWN
among many other that Brutman never cared about.
It certainly did resolve a lot of 'issues' which Michael B didn't care about. I have used it myself. Not sure if you have noticed though, it certainly runs slower than Brutman's. Michael himself muttered something a while ago about it being sloppy code/bad loop routine or something of that ilk, I'd have to read my email to find out.
Funny I onced emailed him if he intents to bring ssh client to his bundle he mentioned that PCs he's targeting are not capable of it..
Whilst I can understand that what he does is a hobby and he's really just in it to satisfy his own PC Jr sized hobby, it really is a shame I think that he doesn't want to connect with his users and grant them some simple feature requests like toggling utf or allowing the use of a pgup key. All very easy to provide in the code I dare say, and sad that a fork had to be made to compensate for that.
jhypyle's fork is a few versions behind now, so it looks close to being abandoned. I actually believe that Michael's current UTF version is actually fine - the CP437 to UTF translation TXT file which he supplies in the docs means that as long as you use the BBS's UTF8 mode, then all the ANSI displays just fine. It's when a BBS doesn't have a UTF8 mode. By default Mystic does, and I'm sure many other do, but some I guess don't. The upside of having UTF8 is that when you're telnetting to a Linux box (which I also do a lot of from my IBM PC), I get pretty darned good compatability from a terminal perspective. If the char can't be displayed by the IBM BIOS, it defaults to a single char that doesn't look broken, unlike how it used to behave, with text spewing out all over the place. So, for me, most BBSes (provided they allow UTF8) operate just fine, and Linux performs good too, as does standard ASCII. So, it is *mainly* the best of both worlds. Just wish he allowed it to be toggled off by a switch or something.
Damn AMIGA has this capability and he's pushing unicode to what... connect modern machines from legacy 286? for what reason...
Per my earlier comment - I think he and others like me are using it to get content from Linux boxes or similar.
so long story short. I respect some sort of networking stnadard he introdu to my MSDOS box initially but I don't believe many of his decisions are tr something that this community really needs anymore.
A fork is what I like more for years.
Yes, I understand some of his decisions, but I wish he read and agreed with his fan mail a bit more!
Cheers,
Al
hyjinx // Alistair Ross
Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary:
https://bit.ly/3tRINeL (YouTube) alsgeeklab.com
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