Editing Mystic BBS Startup?
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CharlieBrown197 · 2020-06-11 15:25

Hi everyone!

So this is it. I am finally ready to commit to becoming a SysOp. It
has not worked for me three times now, but I am finally ready to take
the plunge. And this time, I'm being ***really*** ambitious. This BBS
will be hosted both over Telnet, and over AX.25 packet radio, so that
any amateur radio operator in the Central Florida area can connect
over a 1200 baud radio link.

But it's not in full form yet. I am working on editing it to be the
best for the packet radio experience, as that comes first for this
project. But there are two problems so far:

1. The user has to wait for it to detect the terminal emulation as
ASCII every time they connect. I want the terminal emulation to always
be ASCII, whether the user connects over Telnet or the radio link. The
only option in mystic -cfg is to force ANSI. Is there a way to force
ASCII?

2. The radio link does not support screen clearing or any other
positioning other than spacing and carriage returns. The Mystic BBS
version and copyright info that display when you first log in have
some garbage before them. I think this is some sort of positioning
information that doesn't work correctly. Can it be removed?

I know these are very obscure things to do, and they may not make
sense, but I need to be able to do these things for this project. It
may sound weird, but it will make sense for the final deployment.

Thanks guys!

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redbrickchimney · 2020-06-11 20:39

post this on fsxNet =)

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ThisApril · 2020-06-11 20:45

>Is there a way to force ASCII?

As a kludge, perhaps you could delete all the ANSI files, and force
ANSI emulation? Since ASCII should display just fine in ANSI
emulation.

Mind you, that's not a _good_ answer, so if someone has something
better I'll gladly delete this reply.

>The Mystic BBS version and copyright info that display when you first
log in have some garbage before them. I think this is some sort of
positioning information that doesn't work correctly. Can it be
removed?

You mean, e.g., "|CL"? Those are MCI codes, which you can read about
at [http://wiki.mysticbbs.com/doku.php?id=displaycodes](http://wiki.my
sticbbs.com/doku.php?id=displaycodes). Worst that'll happen is that
whatever that code is supposed to do doesn't happen.

E.g., |CL "Clears the screen (ANSI 1,1 locate and [2J or ASCII 12)"

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CharlieBrown197 · 2020-06-11 20:48

Yes, I do mean the display codes. The problem with that is that if the
display codes try to do something that would normally be an ANSI
escape sequence, it prints it on the screen as nonsense. Not the end
of the world, but if possible, I want it gone.

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CharlieBrown197 · 2020-06-11 20:49

Sorry, I'm not familiar. What is fsxNet? I'm a bit of a newbie... 😁

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SqualorTrawler · 2020-06-11 21:23

Thats the BBS network that supports Mystic issues among other things.
Many or most Mystic boards carry it.  It really is the best place to
ask this question.

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CharlieBrown197 · 2020-06-11 21:31

Thanks! I will look into that.