Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 02:55:24 -0400
From: MICHAEL PURDY
To: LEE GREEN
Subject: RE: RIP
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Its quite possible that Sysops still offering ANSI would use it if
available, especially those with Dial-up customers.
Unfortunately there is no way to detect it using the Display Macro language.
However, creating an IFRIP=v macro and supporting the INCLUDE macro is one
way SSI could implement RIP support albeit in a sub-optimal manner.
The alternative would involve SSI modifying the current DisplayFile()
function to serve *.BBS or *.RIP depending upon the user terminal type
and/or RIP Version. Regardless of the approach I strongly suspect
customers would need to supply their own RIP Files.
I made a small change to MAIN.WCX in order to detect RIP and the RIP
Version Number. In order to serve the ANSI and RIP sets a 3rd party
developer would need to rework a number of the ANSI modules which it would
not be prudent to redistribute.
If someone is interested in RIP support they can always raise it with SSI and/or perhaps find out whether or not other Sysops are interested in it.
I don˙t think it would be worth pursuing unless it can be determined that
RIP v1 and v2 Terminals are supported. I only have access to a v3 Terminal Emulator so I cannot test v1 or v2 support.
If someone wants to test with earlier versions let me know.
On 11/15/2013 9:08 PM, LEE GREEN wrote to MICHAEL PURDY:
How do you connect with ANSI AND RIP?
Connected with Telnet. Ansi detected. - Detected RIP Version: 030001
Can you give a step by step instructions how to achive this using the methods via variables and alternate display files, etc.
In light of the obsolete status of 16 bit centric BBS RIP I doubt this thread will attract a great deal of attention. However, as it may
assist
someone in the future I will make a couple of observations.
The capacity to detect RIP exists in Wildcat! v5 to v7, but it is not implemented by default in MAIN.WCC.
The code to display an alternate set of *.RIP or dispR.BBS files does
not
currently exist at all in the relevant ANSI Side modules.
You can implement the ability to detect RIP and its associated Version
Connected with Telnet. Ansi detected. - Detected RIP Version: 030001
As you will see above I am successfully detecting RIP Version 3. I
do not
have a working RIP v1 or v2 emulator so I cannot test backwards compatibility. However, my testing was based on the RIPv1
Specification so
it should work with v1 to v3.
Once you have detected RIP you can set a global session variable for the user and then display an alternate set of RIP files. I tested the
concept
of HELLOR1-HELLOR9.BBS and it worked fine.
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