Question about retrieving raw ANSI from BBS Door Game.
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GoldenArmada · 2020-01-22 20:39

I'm currently using Syncterm for this.  On a Mac, if I press Cmd-C
(Ctrl-C) for Windows, I choose an empty file on my desktop to save the
Raw data stream to.  If I then open it in Sublime Text, I don't see
the appropriate [Block
Elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements) of characters,
but substituted unicode symbols like º or Û, etc.  Does anyone know
how to extract the ANSI characters and codes faithfully into a text
file?

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denzuko · 2020-01-22 20:51

ah.. mac. So syncterm uses libsdl to render and thus its going to
capture and interpetate the raw ansi.

Better to use something like socat, telnet, or ckermit from
[Terminal.app](https://Terminal.app) to interact with the direct data
coming across the wire.

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GoldenArmada · 2020-01-22 20:58

Gotcha.  OK.

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wndrbr3d · 2020-01-23 11:55

If they’re embedded in the exe you can use a disassembler to extract
the ANSI as they’d all be saved as strings in the DATA segments