Hey there,

I'm curious if anyone knows of a telnet client for BBS's that will see a web address in the output to screen and allow us to click on that address to open a browser. Does such a beast exist?

I use SyncTerm currently which works great but I'm always seeing links and I never go to the links because its too much of a pain to get them to a browser. SyncTerm won't even let me copy and paste text from the screen.


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I'm curious if anyone knows of a telnet client for BBS's
that will see a web address in the output to screen and
allow us to click on that address to open a browser.
Does such a beast exist?

I don't have an answer for this but I am interested also.

I use SyncTerm currently which works great but I'm
always seeing links and I never go to the links because
its too much of a pain to get them to a browser.
SyncTerm won't even let me copy and paste text from the
screen.

If you connect to a BBS that captures the mouse, then SyncTerm will pass the mouse controls to the BBS (so copying text is disabled). You can press Alt-B to enter scrollback mode, which will allow you to select text with the mouse (selected text is automatically copied to the clipboard), and Esc exits scrollback mode.

I don't know if there's a way to paste back into SyncTerm on BBSes that capture the mouse, but at least it's possible to copy from SyncTerm using the scrollback buffer.


Chris/akacastor

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On 27 Jun 2024, TheNerd said the following...

I'm curious if anyone knows of a telnet client for BBS's that will see a web address in the output to screen and allow us to click on that
address to open a browser. Does such a beast exist?

IcyTerm does this:

https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools/blob/master/icy_term/README.md


Jay

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I use SyncTerm currently which works great but I'm always seeing links and never go to the links because its too much of a pain to get them to a browser. SyncTerm won't even let me copy and paste text from the screen.

NetRunner lets you copy it to the clipboard and then alt-v paste it and it works fine.

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Hey there,

I'm curious if anyone knows of a telnet client for BBS's that will see a web address in the output to screen and allow us to click on that address to open a browser. Does such a beast exist?

Icyterm does exactly that.

I use SyncTerm currently which works great but I'm always seeing links and I never go to the links because its too much of a pain to get them to a browser. SyncTerm won't even let me copy and paste text from the screen.

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Quoting Warpslide to TheNerd <=-

IcyTerm does this: https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools/blob/master/icy_term/README.md

Something happened to icy_term on my computer. I'm not sure if a windows update broke it or if I have hardware failing. Under linux it segfaults
and the windows version (I assume) does the same as it never opens.

Shawn

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Icyterm does exactly that.

Awesome.. I'll check it out when I get a moment.


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I'm curious if anyone knows of a telnet client for BBS's that will see a w address in the output to screen and allow us to click on that address to o a browser. Does such a beast exist?

Take a look at Blocker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBEzEV-5oRA https://github.com/xqtr/blocker_bbs_telnet_client

You can't click on the link, but you can open any link in your Browser, just with the keyboard... no need to use a mouse ;)

It can also open any other type of link, magnet, torrent, gopher, email etc. Blocker uses Regular Expressions to scan for links/data you specify and opens an associated program, that you have chose.

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Quoting Warpslide to TheNerd <=-

IcyTerm does this: https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools/blob/master/icy_term/README.md

Something happened to icy_term on my computer. I'm not sure if a windows update broke it or if I have hardware failing. Under linux it segfaults and the windows version (I assume) does the same as it never opens.

Try deleting the setup file, if you can find it. I had a similar issue and that fixed it. It won't delete any of your connections, but will default thigns like the background.

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On 28 Jun 2024, Tiny said the following...

Something happened to icy_term on my computer. I'm not sure if a windows update broke it or if I have hardware failing. Under linux it segfaults and the windows version (I assume) does the same as it never opens.

This happened to me as well on the MacOS version. Going back to version 0.7.5 fixed it for me:

https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools/releases/tag/IcyTerm0.7.5


Jay

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Quoting Shurato to Tiny <=-

Try deleting the setup file, if you can find it. I had a similar
issue and that fixed it. It won't delete any of your connections, but will default thigns like the background.

I found the setup directory and deleted that, but didn't help.

Shawn

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Quoting Warpslide to Tiny <=-

version 0.7.5 fixed it for me: https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools/releases/tag/IcyTerm0.7.5

I'll give that a shot!

Shawn

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Quoting Warpslide to Tiny <=-

I know I replied on another mil, but...

version 0.7.5 fixed it for me: https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools/releases/tag/IcyTerm0.7.5

Just grabbed this version, no difference just doesn't launch on windows
and the linux version seg faults.

Shawn

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Quoting Warpslide to Tiny <=-

I know I replied on another mil, but...

version 0.7.5 fixed it for me: https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools/releases/tag/IcyTerm0.7.5

Just grabbed this version, no difference just doesn't launch on windows and the linux version seg faults.

Which version of Windows? I'm using 10 64 Pro and it is wotking fine after getting rid of the settings file.

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Re: Telnet Clients
By: TheNerd to All on Thu Jun 27 2024 12:14 pm

SyncTerm won't even let me copy and paste text from the screen.

It does me. Left-click at beginning of text, hold down left button while moving mouse to highlight text, then let up the mouse button. Highlighted text is copied to clipboard.
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Quoting Shurato to Tiny <=-

Which version of Windows? I'm using 10 64 Pro and it is wotking fine after getting rid of the settings file.

Windows 11. It was working, then it jhust stopped. I did notice a
windows update had happened too. Who knows?

Shawn

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Which version of Windows? I'm using 10 64 Pro and it is wotking fine after getting rid of the settings file.

Windows 11. It was working, then it jhust stopped. I did notice a
windows update had happened too. Who knows?

People used to laugh at me when I said windows update broke the NTVDM. I had to release v1.19 DOS to fix a ems issue in v1.18 years ago and people laughed and laughed and said there is no way windows caused it, but guess what .. it DID.

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SyncTerm won't even let me copy and paste text from the screen.

It does me. Left-click at beginning of text, hold down left button while moving mouse to highlight text, then let up the mouse button.
Highlighted text is copied to clipboard.

If he's connected to a Mystic Board that won't work. I'm using the Windows Version of Syncterm.
Something with the mouse and Mystic.

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On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 23:02:24 -0400, you wrote:

If he's connected to a Mystic Board that won't work. I'm using the
Windows Version of Syncterm.
Something with the mouse and Mystic.

I would imagine that would happen connecting to a Synchronet board too. I believe both softwares capture the mouse on connect, which makes copy/pasting not possible unless you disable that feature.

Regards,
Nick

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Take a look at Blocker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBEzEV-5oRA https://github.com/xqtr/blocker_bbs_telnet_client

Blocker looks great! Some really cool ideas you've implemented, being able to add/modify regex to find links, and the interface to "click" links only using the keyboard is great. The support to run as a door is also very cool! A lot of neat features to explore.

Thanks for sharing the link, I hadn't found Blocker yet and didn't know what I was missing. :)


Chris/akacastor


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Re: Re: Telnet Clients
By: Cozmo to Skylar on Mon Jul 01 2024 06:02 pm

SyncTerm won't even let me copy and paste text from the screen.

It does me. Left-click at beginning of text, hold down left button while moving mouse to highlight text, then let up the mouse button. Highlighted text is copied to clipboard.

If he's connected to a Mystic Board that won't work. I'm using the Windows Version of Syncterm.
Something with the mouse and Mystic.

In the latest builds of SyncTERM v1.2b, just hit Alt-O to override the mouse capture of the BBS. Or hit Alt-B to copy from the scroll-back buffer. Either works great (Mystic or otherwise).
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Re: Telnet Clients
By: Accession to Cozmo on Mon Jul 01 2024 05:09 pm

On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 23:02:24 -0400, you wrote:

If he's connected to a Mystic Board that won't work. I'm using the Windows Version of Syncterm.
Something with the mouse and Mystic.

I would imagine that would happen connecting to a Synchronet board too. I believe both softwares capture the mouse on connect, which makes copy/pasting not possible unless you disable that feature.

In Synchronet, the mouse capture is optional (user preference under
terminal settings), whereas with Mystic, I don't think there's a way to disable it.
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In the latest builds of SyncTERM v1.2b, just hit Alt-O to override the mouse capture of the BBS. Or hit Alt-B to copy from the scroll-back buffer. Either works great (Mystic or otherwise).
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Cool, Thanks! I'm actually using v1.2b. Learn something new everyday. :)

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Re: Telnet Clients
By: Accession to Cozmo on Mon Jul 01 2024 05:09 pm

I would imagine that would happen connecting to a Synchronet board too. I believe both softwares capture the mouse on connect, which makes copy/pasting not possible unless you disable that feature.

I don't connect to many boards, but they are all Synchronet boards and it works for me. I suppose the SysOps have mouse capture disabled.
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Re: Telnet Clients
By: Skylar to Accession on Fri Jul 05 2024 02:14 pm

I would imagine that would happen connecting to a Synchronet board too. I believe both softwares capture the mouse on connect, which makes copy/pasting not possible unless you disable that feature.

I don't connect to many boards, but they are all Synchronet boards and it works for me. I suppose the SysOps have mouse capture disabled.

After seeing dm's message, it seems that I either disabled mouse capture or never enabled it.

I'm still slowly catching up. I have no idea why I'd want a BBS to capture my mouse activity. ;)
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Re: Telnet Clients
By: Skylar to Accession on Fri Jul 05 2024 02:27 pm

Re: Telnet Clients
By: Skylar to Accession on Fri Jul 05 2024 02:14 pm

I would imagine that would happen connecting to a Synchronet board too. I believe both softwares capture the mouse on connect, which makes copy/pasting not possible unless you disable that feature.

I don't connect to many boards, but they are all Synchronet boards and it works for me. I suppose the SysOps have mouse capture disabled.

After seeing dm's message, it seems that I either disabled mouse capture or never enabled it.

I'm still slowly catching up. I have no idea why I'd want a BBS to capture my mouse activity. ;)

The reason would be for clickable menus and such. Try it out.
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Something happened to icy_term on my computer. I'm not sure if a windows update broke it or if I have hardware failing. Under linux it segfaults and the windows version (I assume) does the same as it never opens.

It shouldn't be able to segfault unless something very low level happens. Which GFX card do you use? Which version was the last working one?

A very old one (let's say 0.2.4) may support a wider range of hardware. The recent ones are all using shader code for rendering. The next time I rework the graphics code I'll work on implementing a fallback.

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Hi Omnibrain,

It shouldn't be able to segfault unless something very low level
happens. Which GFX card do you use? Which version was the last working
one?

It's a laptop with AMD Ryzen and Radeon graphics. (No other information is
in windows). It seems to run most games I thow at it.

A very old one (let's say 0.2.4) may support a wider range of
hardware. The recent ones are all using shader code for rendering. The
next time I rework the graphics code I'll work on implementing a
fallback.

I'll check a few versions back... At one point I could have sworn I had the current version working in both Windows and the WSL install I have, but now neither work.

Shawn






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