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    From MIKE POWELL@21:1/175 to KIRKSPRAGG on Sat Apr 27 09:19:00 2024
    │Am currently using the telnet client from MTCP, would like to know i there are │any other good DOS based clients... maybe even something that supported
    │RIP graphics or maybe lets you store you fav bbs's in a nice menu like │SyncTERM.
    [...]
    │Most of what I have found thus far are communication programs that are │limited to using a modem/serial port - Is there perhaps a way to get these │working as telnet clients via some COM port to TCP redirection software?? └─[K=>All]

    GT Power BBS software originally started as a terminal client and retained
    that capability throughout its lifespan. There was included a "GTO"
    executable that was a terminal only, no host, version, while the standard executable contained both a terminal and host modes. It supports RIP
    graphics and also has a very nice dialer/phone book menu.

    The standard version works on XTs, 286s, and up. The "AT" version works on machines greater-than an XT.

    GT, of course, is from the era where you had to dial out using a modem. I
    have never tried it with Windows or DOS but, under OS/2 with VMODEM, if you
    set the COM port in GT to the virtual modem and put a telnet address into the phone number field, GT is a very excellent telnet BBS client.

    Virtual modem software for Windows used to often emulate a "soft" modem,
    which in this case would not work. If you have a package that properly emulates a hardware modem, like VMODEM for OS/2 does, GT might work as a
    telnet BBS client for Windows or DOS.

    Mike

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  • From kirkspragg@21:2/150 to MIKE POWELL on Sat Apr 27 21:57:31 2024
    GT, of course, is from the era where you had to dial out using a modem.
    I have never tried it with Windows or DOS but, under OS/2 with VMODEM,
    if you set the COM port in GT to the virtual modem and put a telnet address into the phone number field, GT is a very excellent telnet BBS

    So far my limited research hasn't turned up anything VMODEM like for win 3.1 or dos but I'll keep looking.

    Regarding you suggetsion to use OS/2 & VMODEM, is this likely going to work with early verions of OS/2 (i.e. the ones that will run on a 286) or am I
    would I need to use 386+ class machine & a later version of OS/2.

    ... On a clear disk you can seek forever.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbS>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)
  • From Mhansel739@21:3/171 to kirkspragg on Sun Apr 28 07:42:34 2024
    This is a shot in the dark, but could you find a version of tcpser that
    would work on the 286? That should create the "virtual serial port" you
    are looking for. I have not done this, but thought it might be an option. --Matt

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  • From kirkspragg@21:2/150 to Mhansel739 on Sun Apr 28 21:11:57 2024
    This is a shot in the dark, but could you find a version of tcpser that would work on the 286? That should create the "virtual serial port" you are looking for. I have not done this, but thought it might be an option.

    I'll look around and see what I can find.

    So far all I've come up with when searching for DOS telnet drivers/Virtual modems ect is RLFOSSIL which is a telnet fossil driver for BBSes that apparently will use a standard packet driver for the networking side of things.

    I don't now how GT's terminal client works (I have yet to look around for it) but if it can use fossil drivers that may be an option.

    ... Reserved for Wicked Witch, violators will be toad.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbS>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)
  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to kirkspragg on Mon Apr 29 18:01:00 2024
    So far my limited research hasn't turned up anything VMODEM like for win 3.1 or dos but I'll keep looking.

    Could always look at a WiModem, looks and answers to AT commands like a modem for the system its on, but connects to wifi and completes a telnet session.

    The only thing I've seen that will behave something like a vmodem for DOS is RLFOSSIL, but its only going to be of value with something FOSSIL compliant, anything doing direct port writes will fail.

    Spec


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