Telnet into linux terminal from BBC B issues

[coxs]

Hey everyone,

I've got my beeb connected to a zimodem and use Commstar

I installed telnetd on a linux machine and was able to telnet into it i can do basic commands fine but whenever i try to open any program even nano it gives me an error with terminal type zimodem.

Is there something i can change on the zimodem or the telnetd service on linux?

It would be amazing to be able to use lynx so i could go on the web from the beeb.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[egrath]

I don't know exactly what kind of terminal Commstar supports, but i assume it's at least ansi compatible. Can you run applications like nano after issuing the following command:

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export TERM=ansi

If so, put the above line into your

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~/.profile

This file gets executed every time you log on. A other common option for the terminal setting is

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vt100

but it all depends on the capabilities of your terminal emulator.

[brianmartin_2001]

I assume you are using Commstar in a 40 or 80 column mode
I e modes 0,1,3,4 or 6 but not Mode7.

I can telnet into my Rpi4 using tcpser and works very well but the Lynx browser didn't work too well with my Beeb albeit it did work, just wasn't very useable... Lots of garble and links missing.

This is a good vid from OzretroComp that might help also...apologies if you have seen already.

See how you get on and post back

https://youtu.be/O5aK8YtY7FY

[coxs]

Thanks to the help provided here i have managed to get nano working i had to set it to dumb terminal on linux as ther vt100 and ansi were giving me garbage characters.

I have checked the commstar manual and it can do vt100 emulation but that has to be loaded in from a file that is 'sold separately' and i cannot find it anywhere online.

Working as a dumb terminal lots of software such as lynx and gopher are unusable but at least it is a step forward.

Thank you for your help

[sweh]

FWIW the ROM version of BBC Kermit can emulate vt52