ANSI?

[helpdeskdan]

First off, kudos! Of all DOS telnets I have tried, good ol' NCSA works the best. It works with dialog, it even works (reliably) with byobu! And, it's got a clock at the bottom! I have a couple PC's I was going to toss out that I now think I'll turn into telnet clients for the ol' test lab. (Who has time for modern OS to boot on ancient laptop?)

Secondly, feature request: VT100 is nice and all, but ANSI color sure would be nice.....

[johnsonjh]

Thanks - I intended to do some development on this, but was sidetracked by other things. It's still on my list. It's perfect for PCjs and it really is the best and most stable of the DOS TELNET clients.

I want to add some features, but I think the first thing to do is to get this working on a modern DOS toolchain. The first task would be getting the old MASM sources working in JWASM, YASM, or NASM, and the C sources working in (Open)Watcom, BCC, and/or GCC (DJGPP).

[johnsonjh]

Hi @helpdeskdan ... sorry that it's been so long. Hopefully I'll get a chance to look at this soon.

[helpdeskdan]

Sometimes no color can be nice. Why, just the other night, I forgot to edit a cron job and was too impatient to wait for the computer to boot. Boot FreeDos, set the color to a nice, easy on the eyes yellow, telnet, shh, nano, done!

Note - Vim seems to act a little strange, at least in byobu when you have "screen=0x12" set in config.sys. (FreeDos) Like, the very last character seems to wrap and cause strangeness. When I get some time I'll try without screen=0x12.