• For Linux users - qodem

    From Kevinl@VERT/DARKNIGH to All on Tue Jun 22 12:33:00 2010
    Hi everyone, I'm looking for some punishment by way of (hopefully)
    some new users :)

    I used to frequent BBSes in the early 1990's using Qmodem 5.0 on a 8
    MHz XT clone and 2400 baud modem. I was into collecting files,
    Fidonet (HolySmokes!), and doors (TradeWars 2002, SRE, BRE). Sadly,
    by the time I got a Cyrix 486SLC/25MHz and 14.4k most people were
    using PPP and my favorite boards were falling off.

    Many years later I was working with server-side *nix and realized that
    I needed a lot of the features of the quality BBS clients like
    scrollback, capture, screen dump, zmodem, and keyboard macros. I
    couldn't find any terminal emulators that would do what I wanted -
    particularly as I wanted to be able to work directly on the raw Linux
    console. So I started writing a fresh re-implementation of Qmodem
    called 'qodem'.

    7 years later qodem has grown up a bit and has nearly all of the
    features I wanted for myself. It is both a BBS client with CP437,
    ANSI.SYS, x/y/zmodem/kermit, scrollback, capture, dump, etc., and it
    is also a ncurses-based *nix-style terminal with really decent
    vt100/vt220 emulation including UTF-8 for linux and xterm emulations.
    It talks both raw serial I/O and ssh/rsh/rlogin/telnet/shell via
    forkpty().

    I am working on a new release (0.2.1) with better xterm emulation,
    x86_64 support, keepalive, and maybe limited proxy support (still
    thinking about this). I invite everyone running Linux to give qodem a
    try and see if it works for you. It is available at http://qodem.sourceforge.net . The "official" 0.2.0 download runs
    well on 32-bit Linux, and the 0.2.1 "pre-release" works on x86_64. I
    am open to bug reports, feature requests, and patches (qodem is
    GPLv2+).

    Since qodem relies on Unicode and ncurses it needs a decent Unicode
    font with CP437 characters. Terminus and unifont are decent under
    uxterm; the default8x16 Linux VGA font (what you typically get running 'setfont' with no arguments) works best on the console.

    I just re-discovered the online BBS community and hope that qodem can
    help someone out there.

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  • From echicken to Kevinl on Wed Jun 23 02:00:58 2010
    Re: For Linux users - qodem
    By: Kevinl to All on Tue Jun 22 2010 08:33:00

    I just re-discovered the online BBS community and hope that qodem can
    help someone out there.

    You know, I'm pretty sure I ran across qodem at some point in my googling, but I really don't remember how my experience with it went (if at all.) I tend to use SyncTerm most of the time, mTelnet occasionally. I'll try to remember to give qodem a shot at some point.

    echicken
    electronic chicken bbs - bbs.electronicchicken.com - 416-273-7230
  • From Ragnarok@VERT/DOCKSUD to Kevinl on Sat Jun 26 02:47:05 2010
    El 22/06/10 12:33, Kevinl escribi≤:
    Hi everyone, I'm looking for some punishment by way of (hopefully)
    some new users :)

    I used to frequent BBSes in the early 1990's using Qmodem 5.0 on a 8
    MHz XT clone and 2400 baud modem. I was into collecting files,
    Fidonet (HolySmokes!), and doors (TradeWars 2002, SRE, BRE). Sadly,
    by the time I got a Cyrix 486SLC/25MHz and 14.4k most people were
    using PPP and my favorite boards were falling off.

    Many years later I was working with server-side *nix and realized that
    I needed a lot of the features of the quality BBS clients like
    scrollback, capture, screen dump, zmodem, and keyboard macros. I
    couldn't find any terminal emulators that would do what I wanted - particularly as I wanted to be able to work directly on the raw Linux console. So I started writing a fresh re-implementation of Qmodem
    called 'qodem'.

    7 years later qodem has grown up a bit and has nearly all of the
    features I wanted for myself. It is both a BBS client with CP437,
    ANSI.SYS, x/y/zmodem/kermit, scrollback, capture, dump, etc., and it
    is also a ncurses-based *nix-style terminal with really decent
    vt100/vt220 emulation including UTF-8 for linux and xterm emulations.
    It talks both raw serial I/O and ssh/rsh/rlogin/telnet/shell via
    forkpty().

    I am working on a new release (0.2.1) with better xterm emulation,
    x86_64 support, keepalive, and maybe limited proxy support (still
    thinking about this). I invite everyone running Linux to give qodem a
    try and see if it works for you. It is available at http://qodem.sourceforge.net . The "official" 0.2.0 download runs
    well on 32-bit Linux, and the 0.2.1 "pre-release" works on x86_64. I
    am open to bug reports, feature requests, and patches (qodem is
    GPLv2+).

    Since qodem relies on Unicode and ncurses it needs a decent Unicode
    font with CP437 characters. Terminus and unifont are decent under
    uxterm; the default8x16 Linux VGA font (what you typically get running 'setfont' with no arguments) works best on the console.

    I just re-discovered the online BBS community and hope that qodem can
    help someone out there.

    ... Direct from the Ministry of Silly Walks
    --- MultiMail/Linux v0.49
    ■ Synchronet ■ Darknight BBS - Darknight.no-ip.org
    hey man, is very nice.. (the syncterm monopoly is dead ;) )
    im running qodem in debian testing (from the deb from sorceforge) and i
    very happy.
    i found lite cosmetic issue when show ansi screens from my bbs. i dont
    know if is my config?.
    please see my screenshot:

    http://yfrog.com/9gbbscapturej

    great work


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  • From Kevinl@VERT/DARKNIGH to Ragnarok on Fri Jul 9 02:35:00 2010
    Ragnarok wrote to Kevinl <=-

    El 22/06/10 12:33, Kevinl escribi<:
    Hi everyone, I'm looking for some punishment by way of (hopefully)
    some new users :)

    ...[snipped]...

    hey man, is very nice.. (the syncterm monopoly is dead ;) )
    im running qodem in debian testing (from the deb from sorceforge) and i very happy.
    i found lite cosmetic issue when show ansi screens from my bbs. i dont know if is my config?.
    please see my screenshot:

    http://yfrog.com/9gbbscapturej

    This appears to be caused by the X terminal emulator and/or font -
    it's putting a vertical gap between each line. Unfortunately I don't
    have a great solution. Qodem uses ncurses for its output, it's up to
    the console or xterm to put the glyphs on the physical screen. I have
    tried a number of fonts but few render BBS screens as well as the raw
    Linux console with the default font. Right now I have the terminus
    fonts installed and I am running qodem from an xterm with this command
    line:

    uxterm -fn -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1 -fg white -bg black

    great work

    Thanks!

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  • From Ragnarok@VERT/DOCKSUD to Kevinl on Sun Jul 11 07:09:27 2010
    El 09/07/10 02:35, Kevinl escribi≤:
    Ragnarok wrote to Kevinl<=-

    Ra> El 22/06/10 12:33, Kevinl escribi<:
    > Hi everyone, I'm looking for some punishment by way of (hopefully)
    > some new users :)

    > ...[snipped]...

    Ra> hey man, is very nice.. (the syncterm monopoly is dead ;) )
    Ra> im running qodem in debian testing (from the deb from sorceforge) and i
    Ra> very happy.
    Ra> i found lite cosmetic issue when show ansi screens from my bbs. i dont
    Ra> know if is my config?.
    Ra> please see my screenshot:

    Ra> http://yfrog.com/9gbbscapturej

    This appears to be caused by the X terminal emulator and/or font -
    it's putting a vertical gap between each line. Unfortunately I don't
    have a great solution. Qodem uses ncurses for its output, it's up to
    the console or xterm to put the glyphs on the physical screen. I have
    tried a number of fonts but few render BBS screens as well as the raw
    Linux console with the default font. Right now I have the terminus
    fonts installed and I am running qodem from an xterm with this command
    line:

    uxterm -fn -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1 -fg

    ok , i will test changing the font,,, im actually use gnome-terminal,
    but i use uxterm too

    im also interested in translate the application to spanish, i see the po
    files in the source. but can you upload the files in launchpad or
    another website that help with translating it?

    Saludos!

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    http://bbs.docksud.com.ar

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  • From Kevinl@VERT/DARKNIGH to Ragnarok on Tue Jul 13 21:28:00 2010
    Ragnarok wrote to Kevinl <=-

    El 09/07/10 02:35, Kevinl escribi<:
    Ragnarok wrote to Kevinl<=-

    Ra> El 22/06/10 12:33, Kevinl escribi<:
    > Hi everyone, I'm looking for some punishment by way of (hopefully)
    > some new users :)

    ...[snipped]...


    ok , i will test changing the font,,, im actually use gnome-terminal,
    but i use uxterm too

    im also interested in translate the application to spanish, i see the
    po files in the source. but can you upload the files in launchpad or another website that help with translating it?

    Saludos!

    Wow, thanks! I definitely appreciate the help with translation.

    I looked at Launchpad, it looks like it needs a lot of work to
    integrate bzr with my existing CVS over at Sourceforge. I might have
    missed something though, is there an interface to just upload .po
    files for everyone to work on?

    A Pootle server looks like it might be easier. I'll see about setting
    one up in the next couple weeks. Sorry it's taking a while, I've been
    on vacation and then got sick right after.

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