Can anyone think of a reason I'd want it set to auto detect and not to ANSI BBS? I "get" there might be a user try to dial in with an ASCII
a default terminal program to load and when I click on the hyperlink it auto loads the terminal program and telnets the BBS I selected. The only thing I couldn't figure out was how to get gopher to send ANSI strings during Mystic BBS auto detection and as a result it defaults to ASCII. I didn't see anything in the manual of Gopernicus really discussing this at all. SO I set Mystic from AUTO detect to ANSI bbs and it works just fine enough.
Re: ANSI Forced
By: The Godfather to All on Mon Jan 01 2024 03:30 pm
Howdy,
a default terminal program to load and when I click on the hyperlink it auto
loads the terminal program and telnets the BBS I selected. The only thing I
couldn't figure out was how to get gopher to send ANSI strings during Mystic
BBS auto detection and as a result it defaults to ASCII. I didn't see anything in the manual of Gopernicus really discussing this at all. SO I set Mystic from AUTO detect to ANSI bbs and it works just fine enough.
So the issue will be the "telnet" program.
ANSI autodetect normally works by using ANSI codes to move the cursor to a location, and then using telnet (IAC) codes to ask the terminal where the cursor is. Some dumb telnet programs may not understand (many of the) telnet IAC codes..
Well just found my answer.
Can anyone think of a reason I'd want it set to auto detect and not to ANSI BBS? I "get" there might be a user try to dial in with an ASCII
If I set it to ANSI and not DETECT then my 132x37 theme does not auto detect when someone has their terminal set to 132x37. So I'm back to not having a hyperlink on my gopher page.
Not usually IAC codes, ANSI position reporting, that way it works with SSH too. Screen size can be detected with IAC codes, but again, not all
Is this in all cases or just when launched from gophernicus? Though I
can see if not running the ANSI detection it also wouldn't detect screen size. Can users force ANSI themselves? I don't know mystic very well, so
I don't know, but a lot of BBS softwares have the option to enable ANSI, then in theory only the login page would be ascii.
With talisman, if ANSI is not detected, I have it prompt to ask if you want to force ANSI, as there are a lot of times detection doesn't work correctly.
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