The OS/2 binaries don't want to start on a real OS/2 box though so more work is required there. I've also recently got the codebase building with OpenWatcom 1.9 for both Windows and OS/2. So far things are looking pretty good and if there are no unexpected problems I'm hoping to get a fresh beta version with built-in SSH and a collection of other bug fixes to Frank to put up on sometime in a week or two provided US (or NZ!) Cryptography Export Controls don't get in the way. In the meantime I'm working on getting built-in SSH working again. That said, the kermit protocol is better than X/Y/Z modem in most scenarios provided the implementation at the other end is decent. The release of that is being sorted out by someone else who is pretty busy so it may be a little while before I get my hands on an officially relicensed version but that feature should return I hope in the not too distant future. There has been a bit of news on the XYZMODEM front - the original author of the code is fine with it being released under an open license. Something for when my to-do list is much shorter perhaps if no one else gives it a go first. I have wondered if perhaps some sort of connection manager could be rebuilt as a kermit script - perhaps present a menu of hosts to connect to like SyncTERM does. In the meantime if you've got a valid Kermit 95 license you can just copy the K95 dialer over to the CKW folder and it should work fine. When I get some other more important work out of the way I'll check if there are any roadblocks to open-sourcing it provided I can get it building with OpenZinc. I've no idea to what extent Zinc was modified by Columbia but if there were no changes to the API perhaps the dialer will build and run OK with OpenZinc. Personally I would like to get the dialer back not because its particularly useful but so there is one less missing feature vs Kermit 95. I think the main reason the code dialer wasn't released was the Kermit 95 authors didn't like it much (it was just a thing to make the product more marketable) and it was built with a modified version of Zinc which was proprietary at the time so the code wasn't particularly useful for anything. This is pretty much the same but with that connection manager GUI gone along with SSH, XYZMODEM and some other proprietary bits most of which are pretty obscure today ( LAT client for talking to OpenVMS Secure Telnet SRP, Kerberos and NTLM Authentication). The product page for Kermit 95, which is what this is based on, will give some ideas of what it was capable of 20 years ago. For talking to BBS there is perhaps not much difference - CKWs terminal emulations may be better (and more comprehensive) where that matters but I assume SyncTERMs emulation and other features are good enough for what its built for.ĬKWs strong point is probably more in talking to and transferring files to/from more obscure systems over awkward communications links - there are Kermit protocol implementations for pretty much everything and C-Kermit for Windows emulates all sorts of odd terminal types. Synchronet at least seems to support the Kermit protocol so downloads and uploads using that will work fine.Īs for killer features vs SyncTERM, hard to say as I've never used it before though SyncTERM does look pretty nice. Without that getting it going again would probably be quite a lot of work. The code to support it is all still there its just missing the one piece to make it work. If the original library it was using got open-sourced then it would be pretty easy to add back in. This tool will allow you to create fonts for use with SyncTERM.Yeah, it is a shame. Supports character pacing for ANSI animation as well as the VT500 ESC[*r sequence to allow dynamic speed changesĬomes with 37 standard fonts and allows the BBS to change the current font *and* upload custom fonts. Telnet, RLogin, SSH, RAW, modem, and direct serial connections Support for IBM low and high ASCII including the face graphics (☺ and ☻) and card symbols (♥, ♦, ♣, and ♠) which so many other terms have problems with (may not work in curses mode… depends on the terminal being used). *nix versions will run using SDL, X11, or using curses Runs in full-screen mode on ALL platforms (ALT-Enter switches modes) Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Windows 7, Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OS X, and FreeBSD SyncTERM is a BBS terminal program which supports:
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