Subj : CTRL+A Codes for SBBS
To   : echicken
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Jan 08 2019 10:02 am

 Re: CTRL+A Codes for SBBS
 By: echicken to Jagossel on Tue Jan 08 2019 10:30 am

Ja> 4) If possible, where can I find a viewer?

ec> I doubt if there is one, apart from just displaying the file on a
ec> Synchronet BBS. In Javascript that'd be something like:

ec> console.clear(7);
ec> console.printfile('/path/to/file');
ec> console.pause();

In the Windows Synchronet control panel, there's also the "Preview File"
feature which can display files with Ctrl-A codes on the BBS machine.

Ja> 5) Would this feature be something a SysOp would be interested in?

ec> We already have the ans2asc and asc2ans utilities included with
ec> Synchronet. Someone might want this since it would save them a conversion
ec> step.

I believe there is/was also an editor for the Ctrl-A format in development
included with Synchronet (or maybe downloadable separately?), but I remember
reading that it still wasn't in a complete or good working state..  ans2asc and
asc2ans is probably still a better option right now.

I wouldn't mind having an editor that could save directly to Ctrl-A format.
But for now, using ans2asc to convert ANSI to Ctrl-A works okay.

Nightfox

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