Bonus question:
I *still* don't have a good option for ANSIi displaying
correctly in my terminal shell. I use a tool, acdu or... ansdu... where
I type in ansu -i FILENAME.ANS or ansu FILENAME.ANS and it will show the file in a cat format... mostly correctly. However, if I could make my linux terminal shell display ANSIs just as well as a DOS shell.... boy, I'd be in hog heaven. Do you have a fix for this? What work arounds do
you use?
What problems do you have displaying ansi? Is it a problem of viewing cp437 on a utf8 terminal? I use...
iconv -f cp437 -t utf8 filename.ans
and that usually works for me.
Ttyl :-),
Al
paulie420 wrote to All <=-
I have WINE installed, but ACiD View failed due to DLL issues. So, you grab WineTricks and enter in: 'winetricks mfc42' at the shell prompt.
(Or, copy your error code if 'wine acidview.exe' gives you one and
figure out the DLL that you need to enter into winetricks.)
After that, 'wine ACiDView.exe' loads up the Windows version of the
app. You can obviously add a launcher menu item so you don't have to
type it into the terminal. Or, if using terminal just use the CLI command...
ACiDView 6.0 for Windows is pretty awesome because with one arrow key
tap it advances to the next ANSI file in VGA mode, or others, and you
can scan through directories full of ANSI really quickly.
What tools do YOU use for ANSI creation and... the process.
I *still* don't have a good option for ANSIi displaying
correctly in my terminal shell. I use a tool, acdu or... ansdu... where
I type in ansu -i FILENAME.ANS or ansu FILENAME.ANS and it will show
the file in a cat format... mostly correctly. However, if I could make
my linux terminal shell display ANSIs just as well as a DOS shell....
boy, I'd be in hog heaven.
Do you have a fix for this? What work arounds do you use?
Just updating some users of the new tool I'm using for editing (well, really for viewing, but..) ANSI files now.
Bringing me to THIS question:
What tools do YOU use for ANSI creation and... the process.
Do you have a fix for this? What work arounds do you use?If I need to view one, I usually use dosbox to view them...
TYPE filename.ans
Very well.. the post that was given earlier for folks in linux is great... type:
iconv -f cp437 -t uft8 filename.ans
Do you have a fix for this? What work arounds doyou use? If I need to view one, I usually use dosbox to view
them... TYPE filename.ans
Very well.. the post that was given earlier for folks in linux is
great... type:
iconv -f cp437 -t uft8 filename.ans
Check that out for doing so in our terminal, without DOSBOX...
iconv -f cp437 -t uft8 filename.ans
Check that out for doing so in our terminal, without DOSBOX...
I assume you type the same command every time you view the same ansi
file, or once you do it once does it convert it somehow?
I'm using PabloDraw on Windows, and since my BBS runs on the same Win machine in WSL2 (essentially a headless Ubuntu VM), I can easily
navigate to the files via Windows explorer and open/edit/save them.
Otherwise, I'd need a Linux based editor that doesn't rely on X. I've tried SyncDraw binary but couldn't get it to run - there's a note on the site that says 'NOTE: *nix binaries aren't statically linked due to
Linux hating it' - but no idea what that means in terms of getting it to run :)
iconv -f cp437 -t uft8 filename.ansI assume you type the same command every time you view the same ansi
Check that out for doing so in our terminal, without DOSBOX...
file, or once you do it once does it convert it somehow?
Yes, I've used some of the off-brand tools around the BBS community... on windows, you could use ACiDView 6.0 for windows; i like pablodraw- it is the moebius of windows... one extra tip, for any *nix box, your ubuntu, the following command works to display ANSI in the terminal - and
anywhere if you're logged into that terminal/ssh/wherever:
iconv -f cp437 -t uft8 filename.ans
windows, you could use ACiDView 6.0 for windows; i like pablodraw- it is the moebius of windows... one extra tip, for any *nix box, your ubuntu,
windows, you could use ACiDView 6.0 for windows; i like pablodraw- it the moebius of windows... one extra tip, for any *nix box, your ubunt
Wait, what? The Windows version of Moebius is the Moebius of Windows.
Windows too... thats all. I prefer Moebius over Pablodraw, but they are both pretty similar.
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