OS4 terminal emulator w/ ANSI color emulation?

[blakespot]

Yes, it works with Roadshow, I use it all the time. You need AmiTCP: assign set up, and AmiTCP:bin, AmiTCP:db, AmiTCP:etc and AmiTCP:serv, and then you can just let the installer do its thing. The AmiTCP: paths are hardcded into the binary...Did you ever try AmTelnet btw?

Thank you! AmTelnet is basically what I have been looking for! I don't know why I went with AmTerm, earlier. It installs and runs fine, and is demonstrating ANSI colors and screen animations, etc. Actual ANSI glyphs are not rendering -- it's not using a PC ANSI font, and one is not mentioned in the docs. I also don't see a way to specify font in the MUI options. Not sure how to resolve this, surely there's some way.

Also - and this is more of an OS4 general question, but during installation I noticed several MUI .mcc files were installed in the System MUI directory. The AmTerm install MUI/ dir contains 5 .mcc files. I noticed that:

- Some of the files were not there before (Term.mcc for example) and were installed in the system MUI dirs

- Some did exist in the system previously and were rather different in file size than what the AmTerm install files show. They were overwritten during this install without warning.

- Some did exist in the system previously and were _not_ overwritten, judging from file size differences.

How is the installer making these calls as far as what to overwrite and what not to? Seems overwriting must sometimes lead to trouble. Can't take a sys: snapshot before installing anything, everytime.

Is this something I should worry about, or is this just par for the course as far as app installs on OS4?

Thanks

[kolla]

Maybe this is of help?

[kolla]

Regarding mui classes, you should be careful. OS4 had PowerPC native mui classes, the ones coming with AmTelnet are of course 68k binaries - you want to keep PPC native ones Mui classes typically, but not always, come in pairs, for example term.mcc and term.mcp - the mcp is the prefs programs to the class.

But ugh... the installer overwriting files without notifying the user and offer to do backup is bad. A away around this problem is doing what MorphOS does, by having assigns set up so user writable directories are ahead of system owned directories in the assign paths. I admit that I am reluctant about running installer scripts just like that, more often I am curious about what the script is about to do, so I read them first :p

[blakespot]

Maybe this is of help?

How did you get that up? When I go to MUI Prefs within AmTelnet things look generic, nothing specific to AmTelnet II. Thanks.


bp

[blakespot]

Many thanks! Looks like the ANSEY font is the best to use, as it is aimed at square pixel aspect ratios. Looks great!


Running AmTelnet (BBS w/ ANSI emulation) under AmigaOS 4.1 by Blake Patterson, on Flickr



bp

[kolla]

Excellent, looks really good
I have been meaning to look into who might have the sources for AmTelnet etc, there are some bugs to iron out, and an update of the ssh support would of course have been wonderful. Sadly, Oliver Wagner, who ran Vapor-ware, is no longer around, he passed away not so long ago.

Btw - if you have Term, it comes with zmodem transfer library in its Libs drawer. If you add that drawer to your Libs: assign, or copy the zmodem library file to your libs:, AmTelnet supports zmodem transfers

[blakespot]

Thanks much

[chris]

Excellent, looks really good
I have been meaning to look into who might have the sources for AmTelnet etc, there are some bugs to iron out, and an update of the ssh support would of course have been wonderful. Sadly, Oliver Wagner, who ran Vapor-ware, is no longer around, he passed away not so long ago.

Might be worth tracking down David Gerber, who was also involved with Vaporware, if he is still around.  Just don't mention OS4, or even OS3.5/9.

There is some Vapor software missing from Aminet, which I keep meaning to upload, but it involves following long broken links and archive.org, so I haven't had the energy.