Subj : Another suggestion....
To   : Deuce
From : Sniper
Date : Thu Jun 02 2005 12:07 am

-=> Deuce wrote to Time Warrior <=-

 De>   Re: Another suggestion....
 De>   By: Time Warrior to Deuce on Wed Jun 01 2005 00:47:00

 >  > Yeah, I'd never use the damn thing.  :-)
 >
 > You'd want to for my board. But that was another one of my points. Truly
 > modded boards with good ansi are rare these days. They used to be all over i
 > droves but not anymore.... it feels like if someone tore down the Statue of
 > Liberty or something :-(

 De> Well, ANSI animation *never* worked the way the original artist
 De> intended except in the VERY rare case 9I only ever saw it once) where a
 De> separate file was created for every speed.  I don't think there has
 De> ever been a time when at least three different connect speeds wern't
 De> common on any BBS.  Added to the fact that MNP and HST were common and
 De> resulted in higher effective throughput... and the fact that you could
 De> end up falling back to odd bps rate (16800, 21600 etc) always made it
 De> kludgy at best.

Kludgy?  Geez... Back in the dialup days with a front end mailer <front
door>, and having to write a batch file that was over 1000 lines long
and the vast majority of it was the connection speeds to pass to the
BBS.  Then toss in what your talking about, as a call to another batch
file that would put the correct ansi screen(s) and menus to be
displayed... This said by someone that has been there, done that and I
have a number of those T-Shirts!  :)





Sniper
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