Subj : COMADORE
To : Codefenix
From : MRO
Date : Fri Dec 09 2022 03:57 pm
Re: COMADORE
By: Codefenix to HusTler on Fri Dec 09 2022 11:05 am
> By: HusTler to theviper on Mon Dec 05 2022 09:24 pm
>
> Hu> You have a 30/70 chance your ansi will display correctly. It depends
> Hu> what method (software) you use and which BBS's you post it on. Making
> Hu> an ASCII ad like MRO suggested would be the best thing.
>
> The thing that I've found that works best is saving the finished ANSI so it
> has a maximum length of 79 or fewer characters per line. I'm referring to
> the line length internally within the file, and not the visual row width you
> see when you view it in the editor. There's a difference.
I always shoot for 77
also no clear screen or cursor positioning or 'ansimation'
>
> Any lines longer than 79 characters get line-wrapped by some BBS message
> readers, which is why they end up looking garbled. Look at (but don't edit)
> one of the SDT files in your /sbbs/data/subs for your networked ad echoes
> sometime, and you'll see that the ads that originate from Mystic BBSes
> almost never have a line length longer than 79 for this reason. The built-in
> Mystic ANSI editor offers this option by default, and so does AcidDraw. I
> personally use AcidDraw to do one final save when I prepare something as an
> ad.
oh i'm surprised people still use aciddraw. usually people use pablodraw or something.
regardless, i LIKE ansi ads. i think they belong in the ad section.
