Subj : Setting a default terminal type for a specific port
To   : vela025
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Feb 14 2024 11:29:44

  Re: Setting a default terminal type for a specific port
  By: vela025 to All on Wed Feb 14 2024 05:31 am

 > Thanks to the help from nelgin@EOTLBBS I now have a pretty well functioning
 > BBS that supports Acorn BBC Mode 7 (teletext/viewdata). With my current BBS
 > (OBBS from 1984) the user selects if they would like BBC mode 7
 > support/vt100 or ANSI at the start of their session. I'd like to set up SBBS
 > so that connections coming in on port 6502 default to the terminal settings
 > that allow BBC Mode 7 graphics to show and connections coming in on port
 > *TBD* default to ANSI with vt100 fallback. Or have everything on 6502 but in
 > the same way as my current BBS disable auto detection and have the user
 > select their terminal type each session from 3 different profiles.  Is this
 > possible? I've scoured the different files and cannot find one containing
 > the default terminal settings or how to disable auto terminal detection. I
 > did try using the PETSCII port as 6502 and changing the .asc files I've used
 > for BBC Mode 7 to .seq but this corrupts them.
 > Any help or ideas on how to achieve this, or achieve this in a different way
 > welcome!

You could check the server port in your login.js and take a different control path based on that.

What would you need to disable auto terminal detection?

The answer.* file is displayed before login.js is executed, so you might want your answer.asc a blank/0-byte file (your answer.ans could contain ANSI since it'll only be displayehd to ANSI-detected terminals).
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