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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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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