Hi DM,Attribute
I seem to remember there being an option to strip ANSI from messages in a sub-board, which I thought was in the toggle options for a sub-board, but I don't see that option there now. I see an option that says "Extra
Codes", but I don't think that's the one I'm thinking of.. Am Iremembering
wrong?
Raw ANSI in messages is challenging to deal with and generally frowned-upon (or disallowed) in message nets because not all BBS software
Color codes (e.g. pipe codes, Ctrl-A codes) are easy to strip, ignore, orconvert to ANSI when desired, so they're usually preferred to raw ANSI.
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Re: Stripping ANSI from messages in sub-boards
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Wed Aug 07 2019 06:47 pm
Raw ANSI in messages is challenging to deal with and generally frowned-upon (or disallowed) in message nets because not all BBS software
"Frowned upon"? What about the ones that encourage it?
Is this Synchronet rule?
Re: Stripping ANSI from messages in sub-boardsor
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Wed Aug 07 2019 18:47:21
Color codes (e.g. pipe codes, Ctrl-A codes) are easy to strip, ignore,
gazetteconvert to ANSI when desired, so they're usually preferred to raw ANSI.
they're also easily used unknowingly and then lead to some funny things being discovered... look at the software list at the end of the fido
when it is posted to the FIDOGAZETTE echo and you'll see inadvertent pipe codes being used which sbbs processes when displaying the message ;)
But on DOVE-Net, I would recommend using Ctrl-A codes for encoding color information in messages.
Is that why my ansi's don't display right? I read on the wiki something about saving ansi screens with no more then 79 lines? I read this in theI'd think no more than 79 columns, and the ANSI should have as many lines as you want. Nightfox
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Re: Stripping ANSI from messages in sub-boards
By: Digital Man to HusTler on Thu Aug 08 2019 11:36 am
But on DOVE-Net, I would recommend using Ctrl-A codes for encodingcolor
information in messages.
Is that why my ansi's don't display right?
I read on the wiki something
about saving ansi screens with no more then 79 lines?
I read this in the
Avatar section. I use Pablodraw on Lubuntu to make my screens. When I save the ansi I use "automatic". What settings would you recommend to use so I can post on Dovenet?
The ansi's I've been trying to post are fine when
posted on a mystic board. Why is that?
What do I need do to post on Dovenet correctly??
As for why you have QWK kludge lines in your message body, that is amystery
to me and definitely unexpected. What message editor are you using? Perhaps try posting a few test messages using different message editors, including the internal editor, and see if we get the same issues with all of them (or not).
You have SCFG->Networks->QWK->Hubs->VERT->Extended (QWKE) Packets set to "Yes" yet on Vertrauen, your QWKnet account (HAVENS) has this option set to "No": [X] Extended (QWKE) Packet Format: No
Re: Stripping ANSI from messages in sub-boardsoption
By: Digital Man to HusTler on Thu Aug 08 2019 04:05 pm
You have SCFG->Networks->QWK->Hubs->VERT->Extended (QWKE) Packets set to "Yes" yet on Vertrauen, your QWKnet account (HAVENS) has this
set to "No": [X] Extended (QWKE) Packet Format: No
This prompted me to check my config, and I had "no" on both vert and my system.
What is recommended?
I changed mine to "yes" - thinking maybe I'll get something extra? ;)
they're also easily used unknowingly and then lead to some funny things
being discovered... look at the software list at the end of the fido
gazette when it is posted to the FIDOGAZETTE echo and you'll see
inadvertent pipe codes being used which sbbs processes when displaying
the message ;)
That's a bummer about pipe codes. Of course, they can be disabled
(even per sub-board).
By: Digital Man to HusTler on Thu Aug 08 2019 04:05 pm
You have SCFG->Networks->QWK->Hubs->VERT->Extended (QWKE) Packets
set to "Yes" yet on Vertrauen, your QWKnet account (HAVENS) has this
option set to "No": [X] Extended (QWKE) Packet Format: No
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