Terminal Programs

ANSI-BBS Compatible Terminal Programs

Stand-alone

Name	Windows	Linux	FreeBSD	OS-X	Telnet	RLogin	SSH	Serial	X/Y/ZMODEM	RIP	Notes
AbsoluteTelnet	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	X/Y/Z	No	Commercial
dataComet	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Z	No	Commercial
Hilgraeve HyperTerminal PE v6	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	X/Y/Z	No	Included with Windows XP, ZMODEM uploads broken, v7 no longer free for personal use
Le Putty	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Z	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	Z	No	Win32/OS2 versions. Author, Tom Fotherby is MIA. free/closed source
NetRunner	Yes	Yes	???	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Z	No	From the developer of Mystic BBS Software
Putty	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Defaults to non-CP437 character set
Qodem	Yes	Yes	???	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	X/Y/Z	No	open source Qmodem clone
SyncTERM	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	X/Y/Z	No	From the Synchronet developers, free, open source
ZOC (Zap-o-Comm)	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	X/Y/Z	No	Commercial
ztelnet	No	Yes	Yes	???	Yes	No	No	No	Z	No	Free, open source, uses external rz/sz. Appears to be abandoned.

Name	Telnet	RLogin	SSH	X/Y/ZMODEM	RIP	Notes
Flashterm	Yes	No	No	No	No	Requires Adobe Flash Player and compatible web browser
fTelnet	Yes	Yes	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
HtmlTerm	Yes	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	No	Yes	No	No	Poor ANSI-BBS support, Version 1 here
My fTelnet	Yes	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)