Subj : How do you edit msg files
To : Mindsurfer
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Oct 23 2025 09:58 am
Re: How do you edit msg files
By: Mindsurfer to MRO on Thu Oct 23 2025 11:33 am
> well, i haven't really thought that through. I guess thats a decision every
> sysop has to make for him/herself at one point. to break the backwards
> compability or not. That would mean, if you want to have any kind of ansi
> animation, that would be problematic for non-ansi terminal users?
Unless you're using Ctrl-A codes or some other form of abstraction, yes, it's problematic for non-ANSI users.
> what do you think would come out if we would create a statistic for
> non-Ansi/Ansi Terminal use? Who would actually want to or have to use a
> non-Ansi terminal?
PETSCII terminals are pretty widely used and I think Nelgin and Deuce are working on some BBC Micro terminal support. These are 2 examples of non-ANSI terminals that user actually use. There's more: ATASCII, VT52, ... but Synchronet does not (yet) support them.
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