Better than SyncTerm? - Sophya

Well, to answer my own question, I just tried out iTerm, and to my disappointment, even though it boasts of being a modern, Cocoa-based telnet client, specifically made for OSX, it still does not properly display all BBS ANSI characters. Some appear as question marks, or other characters. I played around with iTerm's various settings for quite a while, hoping and trying to get it to work right, but to no avail.

On the other hand, with SyncTERM, I just gave it a BBS name and a domain name, and it works great. All ANSI characters are rendered perfectly exactly as it is meant to be seen.

In short, as I noted yesterday, as far as I know, SyncTERM is STILL the only free Mac telnet client that fully and properly displays all ANSI characters, and with very little setup fuss, in spite of its clunky, unMac-like appearance.

I hope that the developer will continue to improve this product, and will overcome these ANSI display problems, as iTerm's GUI and overall feel is definitely more Mac-like than syncTERM could ever hope to be. Perhaps I will give iTerm another try at some later date.

Oh, also, I could not get iTerm to download files from a BBS that I visited. How does one set the path to the download folder in iTerm? I couldn't find any help regarding this. Thanks!

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Wednesday, September 17 2008 @ 04:59 PM PDT