![]() Or if so inclined you can even load a tray If you want another program on that second X then its just a case of running something like In contrast HTTP can eat through GB's of your data allowance often seemingly without actually having done/achieved much. Nice in the respect that you can BBS for hours in evening and use relatively little data bandwidth, maybe less than 10MB. 1366x768 on Ctrl-Alt-F4 (main system), 640x480 on Ctrl-Alt-F5, two separate X sessions. When you ctrl-alt-F4 back to the usual desktop that should revert to your usual 1366x768 (or whatever) resolution. Call (ssh or telnet) to your desired board(s) and join in on chats, post/read messages, chat with the sysop, play games or just simply browse around. ![]() Once you configure a BBS to call within syncterm make sure you F2 to call up the configure menu and set the very last entry in that menu to RIP. Then when you run syncterm it will better fit the screen/display. Given the lower resolution of BBS's let's set that to 640x480 resolution by running Ctrl-Alt-F5 back to it and you should have a command prompt. That starts another X and jumps you to that typically on Ctrl-Alt-F5, that initially is just a black screen, so Ctrl-Alt-F2 again and run One way is to do that is on a separate X, so Ctrl-Alt-F2 to a console session, log in and run ![]() In which case for RIP its best (mandatory) to run syncterm in a graphical environment such as under X. # Redhat/Fedora: To Install apps/libraries used to compileĮcho "Redhat/Fedora found: Preparing to install relevant libraries."Įcho "sudo yum install wget ncurses-devel devtoolset-8 SDL2"Įcho "About to download the syncterm application source."ĭ=$(ls -1hrtd sync*/|tail -1|sed 's/\/$//g')Įcho "Set st_path variable for the SRC_ROOT path." Sudo apt-get install -y wget libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev gcc libsdl1.2-dev build-essential # Debian/Ubuntu: To Install apps/libraries used to compileĮcho "Debian/Ubuntu found: Preparing to install relevant libraries." Echo "This will get syncterm, build it, and install it for you!"ĬheckOS=$(grep -i id_like /etc/os-release|awk -F\= ''|sed 's/"//g') You can download the win32 i386 installer version directly here.Īll other downloads are from the homepage. Supports Operation Overkill ][ Terminal emulation 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 Terms have problems with (may not work in curses mode. Support for IBM low and high ASCII including the face graphics (☺ and ☻) and card symbols (♥, ♦, ♣, and ♠) which so many other *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, Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OS X, and FreeBSD SyncTERM is a BBS terminal program which supports: The home page is located here Information from the homepage It supports various ANSI protocols, has support for X,Y,Zmodem transfers, and it can connect via telnet, ssh, rsh
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