DOSbox telnet for ASCII "Block" or ANSI art in Linux
 

Just found out that the art on the BBS I go to is better then it appears in Linux.
Someone told me to try to connect in Windows and see how it looks.
First time in years I found something Windows does better then Linux.
The art in the Windows terminal was amazing.

I read up on it and found out it's not really ASCII art but ANSI art (Sometimes called ASCII "BLOCK" art) and no OS other then Windows/DOS has supported it.

So I figured maybe I could use DOSBOX or even Wine to telnet to the BBS and see the art how it should be. But, I've had no luck.

I did find a telnet app at sourceforge.net that started up in dosbox, but when I try to connect I get a "NO DRIVER PACKET FOUND" error.

any help would be great.
Does anyone know of a telnet app that runs in DOSBOX maybe?

What was the program you were using when you got that error? It might be easier to fix that problem.

It was this one
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshdos/

I did google it and a site I found said it need DOS drivers for my hardware and if it's new hardware that there most likely no DOS Drivers for it.

But, I hope you can figure it out

I doubt it. The problem with ASCII art is that it will not display the same if you don't use the exact same character set every time. There are two things that matters: the code page itself, and the font you use. You don't have to worry about that because windows terminals use always the same font with the same limited charsets.

So you have two separate issues: the character set that you use and the font. Since most character sets should respect the first 7-bit subset for compatibility with ASCII and such things, I would try changing the font you are using. This can be done configuring your terminal emulator if in X, and configuring the console font if outside X in plain console.

I don't know of any, but if dosbox uses an alternative font that can emulate the dos codepages 100% then that might be another solution. But I've never tried the modem stuff under dosbox, and have absolutely no idea how complicated can it be to get it working.

I think your error relates to the fact that DOS never had any built-in networking, so individual applications were forced to use provide their own network code. To partially solve this, there was an open-source effort that used a 'packet-driver' API for standardizing access to network hardware. Many applications could be configured to look for a packet driver for access to the network hardware. Such packet drivers were typically loaded as resident code (TSR's), and provided a standard API for locating their services. Your telnet client is complaining that no such driver could be found. It is difficult to imagine how any packet driver written for real-mode DOS could work in a DOS box under Linux. Moreover, it is unlikely that any packet driver was written for modern ethernet hardware. Not wanting to burst your bubble, but I'd say your probability of success on this approach is quite low.
--- rod.

got it!!!!

Followed these Directions
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x606.html

But used this directory instead /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc for Ubuntu

then
$rxvt -bg black -fg white -fn vga11x19

you'll need to install rxvt with
$sudo aptitude install rxvt

Thanks for the help guys