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Terminal Programs

ANSI-BBS Compatible Terminal Programs

Name Windows Linux FreeBSD OS-X Telnet RLogin SSH Serial X/Y/ZMODEM RIP Notes
AbsoluteTelnetYesNoNoNoYesNoYesNoYesNoCommercial
Flashterm Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No No No Requires Adobe Flash Player and compatible web browser
fTelnet Yes Yes Maybe? Yes Yes Yes No No YModem-G OnlyPartially More features than Flashterm! Intended to be installed by SysOps on their BBS's website. See the “My fTelnet” entry for user-focused implementation. Requires Adobe Flash Player and compatible web browser
Hilgraeve HyperTerminal PE v6 Yes No No No Yes No No Yes Yes No Included with Windows XP, ZMODEM uploads broken, v7 no longer free for personal use
HtmlTerm Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No YModem-G OnlyNo Intended to be installed by SysOps on their BBS's website. Requires a compatible web browser (supporting Canvas and WebSockets)
JavaTelnetSSH Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No Poor ANSI-BBS support, Version 1 here
Le Putty Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes ZMODEM OnlyNo Fork of putty, uses external rz/sz, possibly build-your-own for *nix
Microsoft telnet.exe Yes No No No Yes No No No No No Included/available with all Microsoft Windows NT+ OSes. After XP (Vista and later), the ANSI-BBS/CP437 support is horrible. Not recommended for BBS use
mTelnet Yes No No No Yes No No No ZMODEM OnlyNo Author, Enigma (a.k.a. dink) is MIA, free, closed source, no batch uploads support
Putty Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Defaults to non-CP437 character set
My fTelnet Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No YModem-G OnlyNo Web based, free, open source. It's basically HtmlTerm ready to be used by users, unlike the HtmlTerm entry above which is more for SysOps. Requires a compatible web browser (supporting Canvas and WebSockets)
QodemYes Yes ??????YesYesYesYesYesNoopen source Qmodem clone
SyncTERM Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NoFrom the Synchronet developers, free, open source
ZOC (Zap-o-Comm) Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Commercial
ztelnet No Yes Yes ??? Yes No Yes No ZMODEM OnlyNoFree, open source, uses external rz/sz

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