Subj : Re: How to setup the bash shell for ANSI
To   : fusion
From : Paradigms Shifting
Date : Tue Apr 19 2022 12:43:28

On 27 Apr 2021 at 08:12a, fusion pondered and said...
 
 fu> On 27 Apr 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...
 fu>  
 fu>  gc> Hi y'all, i was wondering if anyone knew how to set up the default ba
 fu>  gc> shell in Ubuntu, to be able to see ANSI art / menus for when you use
 fu>  gc> syncterm at the command line, or if your using simple telnet?
 fu>  gc> i was just curios if anyone had been successful at it?
 fu> 
 fu> telnet bbs | iconv -f cp437
 fu> 
 fu> no downloads, and a handful of characters might not work if the default
 fu> unicode

I wonder if there is a way to get the Linux terminal prompt to support it, whether you're telnetting, or not. Just like how the MS-DOS Prompt will support it, as long as ANSI.SYS is loaded.

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