Subj : DOSBox
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Avatar
Date : Fri Feb 21 2020 21:00:53

on 21 Feb 2020, Nightfox said...
 
 Ni>   Re: Re: DOSBox
 Ni>   By: g00r00 to Nightfox on Sat Feb 22 2020 07:16 am
 Ni> 
 Ni>  Ni>> status bar is showing or not, I had problems on different menus on
 Ni>  Ni>> my BBS.  Has anyone set up Telix in DOSBox?
 Ni> 
 Ni>  g0> I'm not sure Telix was ever good with ANSI though lol
 Ni> 
 Ni> Telix was very popular though..  I tended to use Telemate a lot more,
 Ni> but I'd be surprised if a BBS-capable comm program would be as popular
 Ni> as Telix if it wasn't good with ANSI.

I've experienced similar issues with Syncterm when logging in to some Mystic
boards (i.e. screen size is not correct so shit scrolls). Disabling the
status bar usually does the trick. Good money says whatever board you're
calling is expecting you to have a full 80x25 screen when, in fact, your
terminal is 80x24 (reserving the last line for the status line). Back in the
day you'd always make sure your ANSIs and prompts stopped by the 24th line
for just that reason... something that seems to have been forgotten in
today's world (much like cutting your ANSIs off at the 78th or 79th column
so you can post them in ANSI-friendly subs directly without them getting
garbled by attempts at line-wrapping).

TL;DR Disabling your status line will probably take care of the issue on
boards expecting an 80x25 terminal.

Also, just because it reminded me, my progression in terminals was:
Procomm Plus -> Commo -> Qmodem Pro -> Telix -> Telemate.

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