From: Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@...>
Date: 2001-02-03T00:13:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10275] Re: Telnet program in ruby?

Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>Given the existence of Tk widget demos in Ruby, and the net/telnet module,
>is there any chance that someone has already written a decent telnet client
>in Ruby yet?  The std Win98 one emulates a vt100 -- i.e no colour, so no
>syntax highlighting for Ruby on our (remote) Suns.

Why invent the wheel?  Try putty:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Glancing at the FAQ it looks like its xterm emulation
handles ANSI colors.

Oh, and you can throw out telnet and turn on ssh
instead. :-)

Cheers,
Ben
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