Subj : Re: Lunatics Unleashed
To : IB Joe
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Jun 12 2022 01:39 pm
Re: Re: Lunatics Unleashed
By: IB Joe to Digital Man on Sun Jun 12 2022 01:38 pm
> On 12 Jun 2022, Digital Man said the following...
>
> DM> @MSGID: <
[email protected]>
> DM> @REPLY: <
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> DM> @TZ: c1e0
> DM> Re: Re: Lunatics Unleashed
> DM> By: IB Joe to Cozmo on Sun Jun 12 2022 10:58 am
>
> DM> > On 11 Jun 2022, Cozmo said the following...
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> DM> > Co> @VIA: LUN
> DM> > Co> @MSGID: <
[email protected]>
> DM> > Co> Just checked the ansi and didn't see anything. It views fine
> DM> > Co> for m using SyncTerm and Netrunner. Don't know what it could
> DM> > Co> be.
>
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> DM> > Mystic sees ANSI fine... I am under the impression that future
> DM> > builds o Synchronet will also see ANSI as well in the message base
>
> DM> Synchronet "sees ANSI" fine as well. What you're confused about is that
> DM> Mystic will strip-out cursor-positioning sequences before displaying
> DM> ANSI in messages to its users. I made a change to do something similar
> DM> in my msglist.js module. I made no such change in Synchronet itself as
> DM> that would make ANSImation in messages impossible. And most other BBS
> DM> programs won't modify the ANSI before showing to a user either, so its
> DM> best practice to just not include the cursor-positioning sequences in
> DM> the first place. --
>
> We just need to get MRO to upgrade ... :)
No, I think you missed the point. Using the built-in message reading in Synchronet, it does not strip ANSI cusor-positioning sequences, so the resulting ANSI may not display as the original author intended. This is how most BBS programs send ANSI-encoded messages. The only exceptions that I know of are Mystic and now Synchronet's msglist.js, which will modify the ANSI contents, stripping away cursor-positioning sequences, before showing them to the user. The best solution is to not include the unintended cursor-positioning sequences in the message in the first place. Using TheDraw, this can be achived by using the "block save" (Alt-B) command.
> You're doing a great job!!!
Thanks. I guess I need to do a better job of explaining things however.
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