> telnet bbs.nikom.org 2323
You can also use ssh with the username "bbs" and password "nikombbs".
> ssh bbs@bbs.nikom.org
Alternatively a dedicated terminal program such as
Syncterm or ZoC can be used. This will also
allow you to do file transfers using ZModem.
Other options that are not as BBS oriented (e.g. no ZModem support) is
PuTTY for Windows and
iTerm 2 for Mac OS X.
There are a couple of things to keep in mind.
- The terminal should support ANSI escape sequences. The standard Windows terminal does not do this.
-
NiKom as of v2.3.0 supports UTF-8 as character encoding, which is used by most terminals
today. NiKom, being an Amiga program from the 90s, did not support this in earlier versions.
If you should come across an earlier version of NiKom the following could be good to know.
NiKom does support a couple of 8-bit character encodings and the one you
probably want to use is ISO-8859-1 (aka ISO Latin 1). In many Linux distributions there is a
command called luit that can help with this. Running
> luit -encoding ISO-8859-1 telnet bbs.nikom.org 2323 > luit -encoding ISO-8859-1 ssh bbs@bbs.nikom.orgwill provide conversion to ISO-8859-1 from a terminal using UTF-8. Both iTerm 2 and PuTTY have options to use a different character encoding.