Subj : Another suggestion....
To   : Sniper
From : Deuce
Date : Thu Jun 02 2005 01:15 am

  Re: Another suggestion....
  By: Sniper to Deuce on Thu Jun 02 2005 00:07:00

 >  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!  :)

Well, I was saying that even the connect speed isn't necessarily the speed that
stuff will be transfered at.  MNP5, v.42bis and HST were all capable of speeds
up to 4x the connect speed.  The reason it's kludgy is because it never worked
properly, not because it's held together with toothpicks and duct tape.


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