Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Tempo Rubato to All on Sun Mar 27 2016 09:45 am

Does anyone know of an iOS app that supports ANSI BBS terminal emulation?
I have a former BBS caller who no longer uses anything but the iTHINGS. I never did find an Android app that was satisfactory either.

tell him to use my.ftelnet.ca in his browser
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Tempo Rubato wrote to All <=-

Does anyone know of an iOS app that supports ANSI BBS terminal
emulation? I have a former BBS caller who no longer uses anything but
the iTHINGS. I never did find an Android app that was satisfactory either.

Seems like something for an enterprising BBS software author to work on, would be even better if it came with an offline mail reader (QWK/QWKE as a minimum, Bluewave and other formats if time permits). I'd be in mobile BBS heaven if such an app came along! :) Currently, I use NewsTam for reading echomail while mobile, but that leaves netmail out in the cold, I have to telnet in (using POP email from multiple locations is fraught with danger ;) ).

That's another thing I haven't seen in a BBS package - support for IMAP access for email.


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Does anyone know of an iOS app that supports ANSI BBS terminal emulation? I have a former BBS caller who no longer uses anything but the iTHINGS. I never did find an Android app that was satisfactory either.

There used to be iSSH, but I heard that was pulled from the Apple app store..

Nightfox

Re: Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Vk3jed to Tempo Rubato on Mon Mar 28 2016 07:59 am

That's another thing I haven't seen in a BBS package - support for IMAP access for email.

Synchronet does IMAP, mostly. Last time I checked, folder support was funky, but it worked. The only reason I turned if off was because my BBS box is too slow and I wanted to trim running services.

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Poindexter Fortran wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Synchronet does IMAP, mostly. Last time I checked, folder support was funky, but it worked. The only reason I turned if off was because my
BBS box is too slow and I wanted to trim running services.

Hmm, OK, I must have missed that part in the docs. I'll have to have a look. I can live without folders, I don't get enough netmails to have to sort them, as my main email addresses are not on the BBS. :)


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Nightfox wrote to Tempo Rubato <=-

Does anyone know of an iOS app that supports ANSI BBS terminal emulation? I have a former BBS caller who no longer uses anything but the iTHINGS. I never did find an Android app that was satisfactory either.

There used to be iSSH, but I heard that was pulled from the Apple app store..

I have iSSH. Nice terminal, but not really designed for BBSs. I use it for emergency remote administration. When combined with the native VPN capabilities of iOS, I can access any server on the LAN. Last time I used it was a month ago, diagnosing a BBS failure while on a bus. The failure turned out to be some hardware oddities, so I couldn't resolve it until I got home. :(


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I have iSSH. Nice terminal, but not really designed for BBSs.

The last time I used it (maybe around 2009 or so), iSSH seemed to have decent ANSI BBS emulation, even including support for the high-ASCII characters. It seemed to work fairly well. What issues did you have with it when using BBSes?

Nightfox

Re: Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Poindexter Fortran to Vk3jed on Mon Mar 28 2016 09:55 am

Re: Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Vk3jed to Tempo Rubato on Mon Mar 28 2016 07:59 am

That's another thing I haven't seen in a BBS package - support for
IMAP access for email.

Synchronet does IMAP, mostly. Last time I checked, folder support was
funky, but it worked. The only reason I turned if off was because my BBS
box is too slow and I wanted to trim running services.

i tried it but no workie so well.
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Re: Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Vk3jed to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Mar 29 2016 08:16 am

Hmm, OK, I must have missed that part in the docs. I'll have to have a look. I can live without folders, I don't get enough netmails to have to sort them, as my main email addresses are not on the BBS. :)

yeah, nobody writes docs here
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Re: Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Vk3jed to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Mar 29 2016 08:16 am

Hmm, OK, I must have missed that part in the docs. I'll have to have a look. I can live without folders, I don't get enough netmails to have to sort them, as my main email addresses are not on the BBS. :)

I don't recall now if I could create mail folders, but it also references all of your messages echoes as IMAP folders.

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Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

I have iSSH. Nice terminal, but not really designed for BBSs.

The last time I used it (maybe around 2009 or so), iSSH seemed to have decent ANSI BBS emulation, even including support for the high-ASCII characters. It seemed to work fairly well. What issues did you have
with it when using BBSes?

To be honest, I haven't tried it, because my main issue is self evident - I read my mail offline. :)


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Mro wrote to Vk3jed <=-

yeah, nobody writes docs here

Haha, sounds like par for the course! :D


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Poindexter Fortran wrote to Vk3jed <=-

I don't recall now if I could create mail folders, but it also
references all of your messages echoes as IMAP folders.

Interesting. :) Pity I haven't found an offline email MUA that I like for the iPad. I have tried a few, but each one has had issues, and reading online is too slow on mobile networks, all that waiting for data transfer (one of the reasons I hate web forums).




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Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Tempo Rubato to All on Sun Mar 27 2016 09:45:00

Does anyone know of an iOS app that supports ANSI BBS terminal emulation? I have a former BBS caller who no longer uses anything but the iTHINGS. I nev

I use Remoter VNC - SSH, VNC, RDP, telnet etc. Reasonable ANSI.

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Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Lab Rat to Tempo Rubato on Sun Apr 03 2016 06:55 pm

Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Tempo Rubato to All on Sun Mar 27 2016 09:45:00

Does anyone know of an iOS app that supports ANSI BBS terminal
emulation? I have a former BBS caller who no longer uses anything but the iTHINGS. I nev

I use Remoter VNC - SSH, VNC, RDP, telnet etc. Reasonable ANSI.

yeah, let the user vnc into the bbs computer :D
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Could always create a limited vm with a terminal installed on it. So the
only thing a visitor could do it to use the terminal application through
Vnc. If it get hacked the only thing compromised it that vm with the
terminal not the bbs itself.

Mro <mro@VERT/BBSESINF> wrote:

Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Lab Rat to Tempo Rubato on Sun Apr 03 2016 06:55 pm

Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Tempo Rubato to All on Sun Mar 27 2016 09:45:00

Does anyone know of an iOS app that supports ANSI BBS terminal emulation? I have a former BBS caller who no longer uses anything but the iTHINGS. I nev

I use Remoter VNC - SSH, VNC, RDP, telnet etc. Reasonable ANSI.

yeah, let the user vnc into the bbs computer :D
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Re: Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Ennev to All on Sun Apr 03 2016 05:56 pm

Could always create a limited vm with a terminal installed on it. So the only thing a visitor could do it to use the terminal application through Vnc. If it get hacked the only thing compromised it that vm with the terminal not the bbs itself.

yeah but why not do something more productive.
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Like what you are doing right now

Mro <mro@VERT/BBSESINF> wrote:

Re: Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Ennev to All on Sun Apr 03 2016 05:56 pm

Could always create a limited vm with a terminal installed on it. So the only thing a visitor could do it to use the terminal application through Vnc. If it get hacked the only thing compromised it that vm with the terminal not the bbs itself.

yeah but why not do something more productive.
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Re: Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Ennev to All on Sun Apr 03 2016 09:29 pm

Like what you are doing right now

post on the bottom, please.
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Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Lab Rat to Tempo Rubato on Sun Apr 03 2016 07:55 pm

Does anyone know of an iOS app that supports ANSI BBS terminal emulation? have a former BBS caller who no longer uses anything but the iTHINGS. I

I use Remoter VNC - SSH, VNC, RDP, telnet etc. Reasonable ANSI.

Terminals work for text but on my BBS (what's left of it), it's all about Scrabble so we need ansi cursor controls.

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Re: iOS iPAD Client
By: Tempo Rubato to Lab Rat on Mon Apr 04 2016 08:51 am

Terminals work for text but on my BBS (what's left of it), it's all about Scrabble so we need ansi cursor controls.

yeah scrabble is fun. but people have to keep logging on and doing their turn or it pisses the other guy off.
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