Subj : THE VIPER BBS
To : MRO
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Dec 22 2022 08:37 pm
Re: THE VIPER BBS
By: MRO to Digital Man on Thu Dec 22 2022 12:58 am
> Re: THE VIPER BBS
> By: Digital Man to MRO on Wed Dec 21 2022 10:18 pm
>
> > Re: THE VIPER BBS
> > By: MRO to Phigan on Wed Dec 21 2022 07:40 pm
>
> > > Ansi is okay. Also there's people connected with bbs softwares that
> > > don't translate ctrl+a color codes. converting everything to
> > > synchronet color codes is not the answer.
>
> > Synchronet can automatically convert Ctrl-A codes upon egress from the
>
> > BBS
> > as necessary for the network or or the network node or the user's
> > terminal. Yes, Ctrl-A codes is the answer.
>
> so are you telling us we cant post ansi ads?
No, I'm telling you that Ctrl-A codes are preferred. Just like it says at
https://wiki.synchro.net/network:dove-net
> I don't think the conversion program can handle some of these people's ansi
> advertisements if there are cursor positioning codes or other methods that
> would trip it up.
Most ANSI advertisements don't use cursor positioning codes and nowadays modern tools (e.g. PabloDraw) can save directly to Ctrl-A file format.
> will ctrl+a codes show up as ansi codes for people on mystic bbses?
They can, yes.
> wouldnt the real answer be to just avoid ansi advertisements if you are
> using
> a petsci terminal?
It'd be better if the advertisements were posted in a neutral (e.g. ctrl-a) encoding.
> even if color codes can be stripped if it was in msg and and the char set
> changed to low ascii, it's not the original ad.
True, but at least it could be a legible representation or decent approximation that's still visible on the user's terminal. Just blinding sending ANSI sequences to the terminal is not a good idea.
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