I am currently using mTCP Telnet on MS-DOS for BBS access. It works
pretty well but has minor problems like pgup and pgdown not working in message listings. I'm curious about possibly better alternatives.
I am currently using mTCP Telnet on MS-DOS for BBS access. It works
pretty well but has minor problems like pgup and pgdown not working in message listings. I'm curious about possibly better alternatives.
I am currently using mTCP Telnet on MS-DOS for BBS access. It works
pretty well but has minor problems like pgup and pgdown not working
in message listings. I'm curious about possibly better alternatives.
If you're using Synchonet for messages, you may want to try a new
external editor. Nightfox's "SlyEdit" does indeed support pgup/pgdown while reading messages in the full screen reader.
If you're using Synchonet for messages, you may want to try a new
external editor. Nightfox's "SlyEdit" does indeed support
pgup/pgdown while reading messages in the full screen reader.
wait... i'm confused... when is an external BBS message editor used as full screen reader? slyedit has a full screen reader mode?
For clarification, I'm not talking about viewing a single message in
the editor (I do use SlyEdit though). I'm talking about viewing all
the messages in a group in list mode. In syncterm pgup and pgdown
works there. In mTCP telnet, it does not. That makes me assume that it
is a problem with the client application which is why I'm looking for alternatives.
It appears that the BBS package does support pgup and pgdown. For clarification, I'm not talking about viewing a single message in aneditor,
but viewing all of the messages in list mode.
When using syncterm on a modern PC, pgup and pgdown works there. When using mTCP telnet under DOS, it does not. Hence my question.
If you're using Synchonet for messages, you may want to try a new
external editor. Nightfox's "SlyEdit" does indeed support
pgup/pgdown while reading messages in the full screen reader.
wait... i'm confused... when is an external BBS message editor used
as full screen reader? slyedit has a full screen reader mode?
Try it out and you'll see what I mean. It was somewhat based off of
Golded and Mystic's FSE system. :)
For clarification, I'm not talking about viewing a single message in
the editor (I do use SlyEdit though). I'm talking about viewing all
the messages in a group in list mode. In syncterm pgup and pgdown
works there. In mTCP telnet, it does not. That makes me assume that
it is a problem with the client application which is why I'm looking
for alternatives.
Oh. Okay, well in that case you may want to find a client that works better with ANSI, specifically BBSing in general. Terminate, Telemate, Qmodem, and Procomm Plus come to mind.
With that said, I can't guarantee pgup/pgdn work in any of those
either though. :)
Kind of like when trying to use a linux console to telnet to a BBS. It
may or may not (depending on your settings for your console) look
nice.
Try it out and you'll see what I mean. It was somewhat based off of
Golded and Mystic's FSE system. :)
do you know when it was released with this capability? we haven't seen
it in max's last update on 2016 Oct 26 but we may have missed something...
Try it out and you'll see what I mean. It was somewhat based off of
Golded and Mystic's FSE system. :)
do you know when it was released with this capability? we haven't
seen it in max's last update on 2016 Oct 26 but we may have missed
something...
It has always had this capability. In the config file you can specify whether you want to use the standard mode, or the FS reader mode. With this mode enabled, it's one screen, and you can scroll through the message.
Unless you're thinking about a completely different definition of a
full screen application..?
if there's editing capabilities in that different mode, then it is definitely not what i/we would call a reader... reader mode has no
editing capabilities... you have to hit a key to reply or write a new message... anyway, i'll try to take a look in the next days... thanks
for the info! :)
if there's editing capabilities in that different mode, then it is
definitely not what i/we would call a reader... reader mode has no
editing capabilities... you have to hit a key to reply or write a new
message... anyway, i'll try to take a look in the next days... thanks
for the info! :)
Yeah, that's basically how it works. It's a full screen reader, and
when you want to reply, you can hit "R" to reply to the message, which then would open up SlyDCTedit, SlyIceEdit, or whatever editor you have configured to use.
Yeah, that's basically how it works. It's a full screen reader,
and when you want to reply, you can hit "R" to reply to the
message, which then would open up SlyDCTedit, SlyIceEdit, or
whatever editor you have configured to use.
i think you're thinking of the digital distortion's message lister...
slyedit has three start up modes, DCT, ICE or RANDOM... the message
lister thing is something separate and i don't find any indication of
it in Max's setup... the slyedit stuff is there and the docs do
reference the DDML but that's all i can find about it... AFAIK,
slyedit came with sbbs when Max first pulled it off the repo and
compiled it... i'm not aware of anything special done to acquire it...
Yeah, that's basically how it works. It's a full screen reader, and
when you want to reply, you can hit "R" to reply to the message,
which then would open up SlyDCTedit, SlyIceEdit, or whatever editor
you have configured to use.
i think you're thinking of the digital distortion's message lister...
No, I'm not. I'm specifically referring to DDMR, or Digital
Distortion's Message Reader. Please just try it out, rather than
assume you know what I'm talking about. :)
slyedit has three start up modes, DCT, ICE or RANDOM... the message
lister thing is something separate and i don't find any indication of
it in Max's setup... the slyedit stuff is there and the docs do
reference the DDML but that's all i can find about it... AFAIK,
slyedit came with sbbs when Max first pulled it off the repo and
compiled it... i'm not aware of anything special done to acquire
it...
The new message reader has the message lister built into it, However,
it started out as a message reader, and evolved to incorporate some of
his other separate mods now.
we'll see if we can find it... hopefully it is included in sbbs like slyedit was so that it can/will be updated when an update from the sbbs repo is made...
we'll see if we can find it... hopefully it is included in sbbs like
slyedit was so that it can/will be updated when an update from the
sbbs repo is made...
It is. They should be in the xtrn directory, but you may have to
update the mods to the current code.
It is. They should be in the xtrn directory, but you may have to
update the mods to the current code.
max has a script, updatesbbs, that archives the current ctrl and exec directories and then pulls from cvs for the exec, 3rdp and xtrn directories... it then runs a make clean followed by a make on sbbs3, sbbs3/scfg, and exec... the next step hunts down the xtrn directories
with Makefiles in them and runs make on them... that should cover everything needed for a system running on the edge ;)
the last update was on 2016 Oct 26 so we'll see what has happened in the last two months when we run the update script... that won't be until
later this evening or maybe this weekend but we'll have to see what RL throws at us first...
Yeah, that's basically how it works. It's a full screen reader, and
when you want to reply, you can hit "R" to reply to the message,
which then would open up SlyDCTedit, SlyIceEdit, or whatever editor
you have configured to use.
i think you're thinking of the digital distortion's message lister...
No, I'm not. I'm specifically referring to DDMR, or Digital
Distortion's Message Reader. Please just try it out, rather than
assume you know what I'm talking about. :)
slyedit has three start up modes, DCT, ICE or RANDOM... the message
lister thing is something separate and i don't find any indication of
it in Max's setup... the slyedit stuff is there and the docs do
reference the DDML but that's all i can find about it... AFAIK,
slyedit came with sbbs when Max first pulled it off the repo and
compiled it... i'm not aware of anything special done to acquire
it...
The new message reader has the message lister built into it, However,
it started out as a message reader, and evolved to incorporate some of
his other separate mods now.
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