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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AbsoluteTelnet | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Commercial |
| 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 Only | Partially | 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 Only | No | 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 Only | No | 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 Only | No | 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 Only | No | 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) |
| Qodem | Yes | Yes | ??? | ??? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | open source Qmodem clone |
| SyncTERM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | From 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 Only | No | Free, open source, uses external rz/sz |
