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    From Kaelon to All on Sunday, May 01, 2022 18:42:01
    Hi there, Everyone!

    I've been using NetRunner and SyncTerm on my Windows PCs, but managed to grab "Termius" on iOS so that I can extend my BBS'ing to my iPad. Is that the best option? What other iOS apps do you use for telnetting or SSH'ing into BBS'es? Would love your feedback and guidance. Thanks!

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Kaelon on Sunday, May 01, 2022 22:00:00
    Kaelon wrote to All <=-

    I've been using NetRunner and SyncTerm on my Windows PCs, but
    managed to grab "Termius" on iOS so that I can extend my BBS'ing
    to my iPad. Is that the best option? What other iOS apps do you
    use for telnetting or SSH'ing into BBS'es? Would love your
    feedback and guidance. Thanks!

    I also use SyncTerm (mostly) and occasionally NetRunner from a
    laptop/desktop. I've also played with the old-skool method of something
    like Telix/Procomm in DOSBox (on Linux), and it works well also.

    I've played with Termius on iOS but it's a little more awkward and I
    don't do it often. I don't think there is anything better for that
    platform, though.



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  • From Kaelon to Gamgee on Sunday, May 01, 2022 21:10:32
    Re: Re: Terminal for iOS
    By: Gamgee to Kaelon on Sun May 01 2022 10:00 pm

    I've played with Termius on iOS but it's a little more awkward and I
    don't do it often. I don't think there is anything better for that platform, though.

    Thanks. I didn't think so, either. There are a lot of terminal apps mostly for TTY/SSH/RLogging into shells, but they have terrible ANSI support. Termius appeared to be pretty different in this regard and had a solid VT100 emulator, so I get about 80-90% compatibility with Synchronet BBS'es.
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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Kaelon on Monday, May 02, 2022 19:13:19
    Hi there, Everyone!

    I've been using NetRunner and SyncTerm on my Windows PCs, but managed to grab "Termius" on iOS so that I can extend my BBS'ing to my iPad. Is
    that the best option? What other iOS apps do you use for telnetting or SSH'ing into BBS'es? Would love your feedback and guidance. Thanks!


    my.fTelnet.ca is OK... and I use the Syncterm Docker to login using an iPad when at my home network; that option is REALLY nice, and can be setup for use away from home - altho I don't go that far...



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  • From Kaelon to paulie420 on Tuesday, May 03, 2022 08:22:24
    Re: Re: Terminal for iOS
    By: paulie420 to Kaelon on Mon May 02 2022 07:13 pm

    my.fTelnet.ca is OK... and I use the Syncterm Docker to login using an iPad when at my home network; that option is REALLY nice, and can be setup for use away from home - altho I don't go that far...

    Can you walk me through your Syncterm Docker approach? I've got several home servers running for media, and they have Docker support, so that might be an option here.

    I do very much like fTelnet, and I like seeing there's an on-demand option in "my.fTelnet.ca." Thanks for sharing that!
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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Kaelon on Tuesday, May 03, 2022 16:40:57
    Can you walk me through your Syncterm Docker approach? I've got several home servers running for media, and they have Docker support, so that might be an option here.

    Well, its available on GitHub here:
    https://github.com/jaromaz/stws

    The instructions are fairly cut and dry, if you have docker experience... for ME, I use ProxMox for my Virual Machines so I just spun up an Ubuntu VM and followed the GitHub to a tee. Once setup, you can access the SyncTerm docker container from any device on the network - like a laptop, other VMs OR an iPad. :P

    I do very much like fTelnet, and I like seeing there's an on-demand
    option in "my.fTelnet.ca." Thanks for sharing that!

    Yea - the biggest issue I have with this method is screen size and the keyboard... its tough to get them all laid out in a useable way on the iPad - but its workable for sure.



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  • From phigan@21:1/101 to Kaelon on Thursday, June 16, 2022 01:54:39
    mostly for TTY/SSH/RLogging into shells, but they have terrible ANSI support. Termius appeared to be pretty different in this regard and had

    Whichever one you're using, inclusing Termius, make sure you change the "character set" or whatever the program calls it to CP437 or CodePage437 because it usually defaults to UTF-8 or somesuch. Then you will see all the ANSI characters properly.

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