Post #4360591
2026-08-03 17:13 UTC
@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange Right on! I asked my first question about #Kermit on Usenet in 1996!
If you happened to enjoy using #BBSes back in the day, Kermit's character set translation feature makes it really easy to connect to a telnet #BBS and see ANSI CP437 graphics in today's UTF-8 world. https://www.openkermit.org/ckermit/bbs/ tells how.
One command does it: "set terminal character-set cp437 utf8". Also it's bidirectional!
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@jgoerzen@floss.social 2026-08-03 17:20
@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange Also given your username, I should mention I added IPv6 support to Kermit, and have a whole page about it at https://www.openkermit.org/ckermit/ipv6/