Subj : New terminal program
To   : Omnibrain
From : apam
Date : Mon Nov 21 2022 16:46:09

Just looked at this today..

your ESC[K should clear to the end of the line (with the current
background colour, not black - unless black is the current background
colour)

Also, there is 2 different ways of doing 24bit colour, I assume you're
doing it the correct way, but there is another way that is supported in
BBSes, I found no specs for it, but it looks like this:

ESC[A;XX;YY;ZZt 

Where A = 0 if background, or 1 if fore ground

XX is The red component
YY is the green component
ZZ is the blue component

Usually you see this format in > 16 colour ansi art, the reason is,
usually the art will have a standard colour change code, followed by a 24
bit colour code, that way terminals that don't support the 24bit colour
scheme fallback to displaying the standard 16 colours.

I didn't learn about this until someone mentioned my terminal didn't
support 24bit colour, when it did.

there is a good document in the synchronet repository, called cterm.txt
it explains lots of weird ANSI that BBS systems seem to use.

Andrew




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