Subj : ANSI file format & BBS creation..
To   : paulie420
From : Al
Date : Tue Aug 04 2020 22:49:29

On 04 Aug 2020, paulie420 said the following...
 
 pa> Bonus question:
 pa> 
 pa>          I *still* don't have a good option for ANSIi displaying
 pa> correctly in my terminal shell. I use a tool, acdu or... ansdu... where
 pa> I type in ansu -i FILENAME.ANS or ansu FILENAME.ANS and it will show the
 pa> file in a cat format... mostly correctly. However, if I could make my
 pa> linux terminal shell display ANSIs just as well as a DOS shell.... boy,
 pa> I'd be in hog heaven. Do you have a fix for this? What work arounds do
 pa> you use?

What problems do you have displaying ansi? Is it a problem of viewing cp437
on a utf8 terminal? I use...

iconv -f cp437 -t utf8 filename.ans

and that usually works for me.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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