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[โ€“] sprite0@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Telemate, by Tsung Hu, was one of the best pieces of DOS software I ever got to use. It featured internal multitasking via its own file reader and composer. With every other terminal program out there if you wanted to create a new file or use a scratch pad you had to exit the program first and load something else.

With telemate you could download a text, open it in the internal reader, then start copying bits over to the internal composer and then cut and paste the whole thing back into the terminal. This was godlike power at the time.

It had a slew if other really useful comm program features, the file downloading system was super tight and had every protocol, the local file browser was really nice. ansi and other graphics support was superb.

I eventually put it into autoexec.bat so my 286 would boot right into telemate. I was terminally online when online barely existed ๐Ÿ˜…

I learned to program thanks to this app. I used it to dial up and access shell accounts so i could IRC and MUD. I made friends I still talk to today through it. For years it was my daily companion.

If i could celebrate one single DOS app it would be the humble yet amazing Telemate by Tsung Hu (who went by Winfred Hu at the time)

you can grab it here: https://archive.org/details/telemate

The only reason i ever stopped using it was I graduated on to Slackware!