[plug] Terminal Emulation

[Leon Brooks]

Matt Kemner wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Bradley Browne wrote:
> > cannot navigate around it, and the screen does not completely
> > refresh (so some of the characters that were on the screen when I
> > opened vi "appear" to be part of the document).  I realise this
> > must be something to do with the terminal emulation

> Spot on. I've never used TeraTerm, but in my experience just about any
> telnet program, other than the one that comes with windows, should work
> fine.[...]

> If that fails, I've found NetTerm (should be on TUCOWS) is almost as good
> as the real thing :)

PuTTY also does a creditable telnet impression, plus it encourages use
of SSH instead of telnet.

Windows telnet needs to have been taken out and shot, about two decades
ago. Same for their command-line FTP client.

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