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    From physalis17@VERT/DECKHEVN to All on Wed Aug 26 03:43:19 2015
    Hey guys i finally found a telnet client that emulates DH fairly well. It's called mocha telnet. i can actually read everything without a jumbled mess of question marks and i can seewhat I'm writing in a proper window.

    i can't believe how hard it has been to find a good telnet client for android. just passing along some good info in case anyone is trying to bbs on android.

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  • From Deuce@VERT/SYNCNIX to physalis17 on Wed Aug 26 03:10:30 2015
    Re: android client
    By: physalis17 to All on Wed Aug 26 2015 03:43 am

    Hey guys i finally found a telnet client that emulates DH fairly well.

    What's DH?

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  • From Hustler@VERT/DMINE to Deuce on Wed Aug 26 10:36:32 2015
    Re: android client
    By: Deuce to physalis17 on Wed Aug 26 2015 03:10 am

    Re: android client
    By: physalis17 to All on Wed Aug 26 2015 03:43 am

    Hey guys i finally found a telnet client that emulates DH fairly well.

    What's DH?

    Yea..What's DH?

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  • From physalis17@VERT/DECKHEVN to Hustler on Wed Aug 26 12:38:48 2015
    Re: android client
    By: Hustler to Deuce on Wed Aug 26 2015 10:36 am

    short form for deckers heaven. I haven't tried other bbs.

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  • From Mindless Automaton@VERT/ELDRITCH to Deuce on Wed Aug 26 13:10:51 2015
    On 8/26/2015 6:10 AM, Deuce wrote:
    Re: android client
    By: physalis17 to All on Wed Aug 26 2015 03:43 am

    > Hey guys i finally found a telnet client that emulates DH fairly well.

    What's DH?

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  • From Nightfox to physalis17 on Wed Aug 26 12:32:54 2015
    Hey guys i finally found a telnet client that emulates DH fairly well. It's

    You mentioned in a later post that DH = Decker's Haven. What exactly do you mean
    by emulating a specific BBS?

    Nightfox
  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to physalis17 on Wed Aug 26 16:38:23 2015
    Re: android client
    By: physalis17 to All on Wed Aug 26 2015 03:43 am

    Hey guys i finally found a telnet client that emulates DH fairly well. It's called mocha telnet. i can actually read everything without a jumbled mess of question marks and i can seewhat I'm writing in a proper window.


    i tried it and it renders like crap
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  • From Ralph Smole@VERT/NIMBUS to physalis17 on Wed Aug 26 16:31:16 2015
    Re: android client
    By: physalis17 to All on Wed Aug 26 2015 03:43 am

    Hey guys i finally found a telnet client that emulates DH fairly well. It's called mocha telnet. i can actually read everything without a jumbled mess o question marks and i can seewhat I'm writing in a proper window.
    Thanks!

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  • From Ralph Smole@VERT/NIMBUS to Mro on Wed Aug 26 17:38:37 2015
    Re: android client
    By: Mro to physalis17 on Wed Aug 26 2015 04:38 pm

    i tried it and it renders like crap
    Same here. Shitty. Not even ANSI.

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  • From Veetid@VERT/ALKY to Ralph Smole on Thu Aug 27 01:16:00 2015
    |07On |0208/27/15, Ralph Smole |07said the following...

    Re: android client
    By: Mro to physalis17 on Wed Aug 26 2015 04:38 pm

    i tried it and it renders like crap
    Same here. Shitty. Not even ANSI.

    Have you guys tried ConnectBot for Android? If setup properly, it displays
    ANSI perfectly. I run it on my Nexus tablet so I can admin my board while I'm away. And it's free.

    -Andy

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  • From Nightfox to Veetid on Thu Aug 27 11:55:44 2015
    i tried it and it renders like crap
    Same here. Shitty. Not even ANSI.

    Have you guys tried ConnectBot for Android? If setup properly, it displays ANSI perfectly. I run it on my Nexus tablet so I can admin my board while I'm away. And it's free.

    I've used ConnectBot, but it wasn't rendering ANSI correctly at the time.
    I'll have to look into it more to see how to get ANSI working properly with
    it.

    Nightfox
  • From Veetid@VERT/ALKY to Nightfox on Fri Aug 28 08:32:00 2015
    I've used ConnectBot, but it wasn't rendering ANSI correctly at the time. I'll have to look into it more to see how to get ANSI working properly with it.

    Try setting your connections to use CP437 encoding. That made all the difference for me.

    -V


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  • From Ralph Smole@VERT/NIMBUS to Veetid on Fri Aug 28 10:20:23 2015
    Re: Re: android client
    By: Veetid to Ralph Smole on Thu Aug 27 2015 01:16 am

    Have you guys tried ConnectBot for Android? If setup properly, it displays ANSI perfectly. I run it on my Nexus tablet so I can admin my board while I' away. And it's free.
    Installing now,will check it out.

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Veetid on Sat Aug 29 17:24:35 2015
    Re: Re: android client
    By: Veetid to Ralph Smole on Thu Aug 27 2015 01:16 am

    |07On |0208/27/15, Ralph Smole |07said the following...

    Re: android client
    By: Mro to physalis17 on Wed Aug 26 2015 04:38 pm

    i tried it and it renders like crap
    Same here. Shitty. Not even ANSI.

    Have you guys tried ConnectBot for Android? If setup properly, it displays ANSI perfectly. I run it on my Nexus tablet so I can admin my board while I'm away. And it's free.



    i just use htmlterm and that does the job. my.ftelnet.ca
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  • From Ralph Smole@VERT/NIMBUS to Mro on Sat Feb 6 22:28:15 2106
    Re: Re: android client
    By: Mro to Veetid on Sat Aug 29 2015 05:24 pm

    i just use htmlterm and that does the job. my.ftelnet.ca
    VERY nice! Thanks man!

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  • From Hustler@VERT/PBSYNC to physalis17 on Mon Sep 21 18:14:33 2015
    Re: android client
    By: physalis17 to All on Wed Aug 26 2015 03:43:19

    Hey guys i finally found a telnet client that emulates DH fairly well. It's called mocha telnet. i can actually read everything without a jumbled mess of question marks and i can seewhat I'm writing in a proper window.

    Wow! New discoveries occur everyday in BBS land. Why somone would want to connect to a BBS with a cell phone is beyond me but to each his own I guess.

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  • From Nightfox to Hustler on Mon Sep 21 16:47:27 2015
    Hey guys i finally found a telnet client that emulates DH fairly well. It's called mocha telnet. i can actually read everything without a jumbled mess of question marks and i can seewhat I'm writing in a proper window.

    Wow! New discoveries occur everyday in BBS land. Why somone would want to connect to a BBS with a cell phone is beyond me but to each his own I guess.

    Several years ago, when I had an iPod Touch, I found a client app for iOS (called
    iSSH) which has great BBS-compatible ANSI emulation, and I used it to connect to
    my BBS a few times. It worked fairly well, but due to the small screen size and
    touch keyboard overlay, I didn't connect to my BBS that way very often. I would
    only want to connect via cell phone in a pinch, and even that is fairly rare. Maybe if I was out and about and bored while waiting for something and really wanted to check messages on my BBS - but for messages, I think the web interface
    works better than a telnet interface on a cell phone.

    Nightfox
  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Hustler on Mon Sep 21 22:10:14 2015
    Re: android client
    By: Hustler to physalis17 on Mon Sep 21 2015 06:14 pm

    Wow! New discoveries occur everyday in BBS land. Why somone would want to connect to a BBS with a cell phone is beyond me but to each his own I
    guess.


    i do it in a pinch to fix something. i dont know why a regular user would want to get on a bbs via phone, though.
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  • From Jeff Friend@VERT/MORDOR to Mro on Tue Oct 13 21:52:22 2015
    Re: android client
    By: Mro to Hustler on Mon Sep 21 2015 10:10 pm

    i do it in a pinch to fix something. i dont know why a regular user would wa to get on a bbs via phone, though.

    When I am overseas, I sometimes connect to my BBS via the mobile data network. Usually on WIFI.. Still, some of us like to connect via phone ocassionally.

    Jeff

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  • From Ragnarok@VERT/DOCKSUD to Hustler on Mon Oct 19 14:33:44 2015
    El 21/09/15 a las 15:14, Hustler escribió:
    Re: android client
    By: physalis17 to All on Wed Aug 26 2015 03:43:19

    Hey guys i finally found a telnet client that emulates DH fairly well. It's called mocha telnet. i can actually read everything without a jumbled
    mess of question marks and i can seewhat I'm writing in a proper window.

    Wow! New discoveries occur everyday in BBS land. Why somone would want to connect to a BBS with a cell phone is beyond me but to each his own I guess.

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    all android client have poor ansi support

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Ragnarok on Mon Oct 19 22:09:46 2015
    Re: Re: android client
    By: Ragnarok to Hustler on Mon Oct 19 2015 02:33 pm


    Wow! New discoveries occur everyday in BBS land. Why somone would want to connect to a BBS with a cell phone is beyond me but to each his own I guess.


    all android client have poor ansi support


    it's not the ansi support most of the time. it's the poor codepage support.
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  • From tracker1@VERT/TRNTEST to Jeff Friend on Wed Oct 21 18:00:56 2015
    When I am overseas, I sometimes connect to my BBS via the mobile data network. Usually on WIFI.. Still, some of us like to connect via phone ocassionally.

    Out of curiousity... are you mainly wanting to access messages, or do you do anything like doors, or want to when you are remote on a phone? Been giving some thought on how to parse messages, specifically threading (> based) and line wrapping to present a better ui, mainly so phones are nicer... Just curious how usable it would be. Also, asuming you are a sysop, how important is it to have your message bases accessible via google/bing?

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    Michael J. Ryan
    tracker1(at)gmail.com
    +o Roughneck BBS

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  • From tracker1@VERT/TRNTEST to Mro on Wed Oct 21 18:21:55 2015
    all android client have poor ansi support


    it's not the ansi support most of the time. it's the poor codepage support.

    Unfortunately CP437 just isn't well supported these days... it isn't even an option in the Encoding Living Standard API. Somewhat surprising it is supported in npm's codepage package.

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  • From Jeff Friend@VERT/MORDOR to tracker1 on Fri Oct 23 22:06:12 2015
    Re: Re: android client
    By: tracker1 to Jeff Friend on Wed Oct 21 2015 06:00 pm

    When I am overseas, I sometimes connect to my BBS via the mobile data network. Usually on WIFI.. Still, some of us like to connect via phone ocassionally.

    Out of curiousity... are you mainly wanting to access messages, or do you do anything like doors, or want to when you are remote on a phone? Been giving some thought on how to parse messages, specifically threading (> based) and line wrapping to present a better ui, mainly so phones are nicer... Just curious how usable it would be. Also, asuming you are a sysop, how importan is it to have your message bases accessible via google/bing?

    Just to read messages. No, I do not do doors or anything really. My BBS at casper.homeip.net is basically only setup to get Dove-Net mail and has hardly any files, no doors except what came with Synchronet at install.

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Jeff Friend on Fri Oct 23 17:30:55 2015
    Re: Re: android client
    By: Jeff Friend to tracker1 on Fri Oct 23 2015 10:06 pm


    Just to read messages. No, I do not do doors or anything really. My BBS at casper.homeip.net is basically only setup to get Dove-Net mail and has hardly any files, no doors except what came with Synchronet at install.


    why dont you setup a newsreader and point it at vert? no reason to run a bbs just to get dovenet
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