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syncterm (BBS-oriented terminal emulator)

syncterm is a terminal emulator that connects to a host via
dialup modem, raw TCP, telnet, ssh, or rsync. Its user interface is
similar to ProComm. It's intended for use with BBSes (bulletin board
systems), and includes support for nonstandard ASCII variants such as
Atari 8-bit (ATASCII), Commodore 8-bit (PETSCII), and "IBM ANSI" as
used by MS-DOS.

syncterm can also be used as a local terminal (e.g. like xterm),
by creating a dialing list entry with address "shell:", command
"/bin/bash -login" or similar.

Some of the documentation is found only on the website:
http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/

More information on BBSes can be found here, along with an up-to-date
list of telnet BBSes:
https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

Atari users can download a sycterm.lst full of Atari BBSes here:
http://sfhqbbs.org/ataribbslist.php

Note: If you're upgrading from syncterm 1.1 to 1.3, your old config
files in ~/.syncterm are no longer used. Syncterm will remind you of
this when it starts up. To keep using your config files from 1.1:

  $ mkdir -p ~/.config/syncterm/
  $ mv ~/.syncterm/* ~/.config/syncterm/

Note: at the time of this writing, syncterm-1.8 is the latest
stable release. If you'd like to try the latest release candidate
(1.9rc3), this script has been tested with it. Just download
syncterm-1.9rc3-src.tgz (md5sum f9ea6071fb9900ca0c1963aece41c5ac),
place it in the SlackBuild directory, and run the build with
VERSION=1.9rc3 in the environment.

Maintained by: B. Watson
Keywords: bbs,atascii,petscii,terminal
ChangeLog: syncterm