Board:   [fsxNet] BBS Software Development/Support
Subject: RE: New (proposed) door drop file format, for review and discussion
From:    NuSkooler(21:1/121)
Date:    Thu Oct 01, 2026 07:21

Twas Wednesday, September 30th when Digital Man said...
 DM> Seems like feature creep: are there actual hosts (BBSes) and doors that
 DM> use those charsets and couldn't be upgraded to UTF-8? Seems unlikely to
 DM> me.

I know there are quite a few Russian boards that still use other encodings, I don't know a ton about them though.


Digital Man around Wednesday, September 30th...
 DM> AVATAR seems like a blip and not supported by any modern terminals. I
 DM> could add a definition, sure, but it just seems like more unused bloat.

Same as above, my understanding is there are some, but I haven't seen 'em :)


Twas Wednesday, September 30th when Digital Man said...
 DM> Due Atari-native boards/doors even use drop files? Have no problem
 DM> defining it, but would really want to insure it has a consumer/tester
 DM> first.

I don't think it's Atari *native* boards, boards are coming aroudn that support these types of things via their terminals/etc. (similar to the sixel swithcharoo)


On Wednesday, September 30th Digital Man said...
 DM> Thanks for *all* the feedback, I'll review and update accordingly. --

Hehe, I know there is a lot. Thanks again for putting this out there!

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