Use iTerm2 to telnet SMTH bbs

When you try BBS in macOS, it sucks! Someone uses welly, but I always use iTerm2 to ssh servers. Today I’ll show you how to telnet SMTH BBS with iTerm2.

Prepare

Upgrade to 10.13.1, telnet disapeared, try execute
brew install telnet
Install telnet to /usr/local/bin

Config

Open Preferences->Profiles

in General

• Click +, add a new Profile, clone Default’s config
• Change Name, such as SMTH
• Add a Shortcut key, such as ^⌘S
• Add Command, as /usr/local/bin/telnet newsmth.net

in Text

• Check Treat ambiguous-width characters as double-width
• Click Change Font to set right size, don’t change font
• Character Spacing, set Horizontal as 90%, Vertical as 80%

in Terminal

• Character Encoding choose Chinese(GBK)

in Session

• Check When idle, send ASCII code

in Keys

• Click +, Shortcut: Home (fn + arrow right), Action: Send Escape Sequence, [1~
• Click +, Shortcut: End (fn + arrow left), Action: Send Escape Sequence, [4~

Done, happy your SMTH life!