Subj : Re: Telnite // Python3 telnet client (Termux)
To   : xqtr
From : Zylone
Date : Thu May 19 2022 06:45 pm

On 18 May 2022, xqtr said the following...
 
 xq>  Zy> Hey xqtr, maybe I should try out some other terminals.. but my daily 
 xq>  Zy> right now is alacritty.. and some of the screens on my are scrollers.
 xq>  Zy> seems to just load the first 25 lines, and the last line actually scr
 xq>  Zy> rest of the ansi.. again, havn't spent a whole lot of time testing it
 xq>  Zy>  nor other terminals.. but so far that seems to be the only thing not
 xq>  Zy> on my end
 xq> 
 xq> Yes this is an issue. Telnite uses the terminal to scroll the window
 xq> when it reaches at the bottom. If your terminal window dimensions are
 xq> 80x25 and the BBS is built around that size, then it's all fine and it
 xq> should display the scrollers fine. 
 xq> 
 xq> Problems start when the size of the terminal is different... for example
 xq> a BBS uses size 80x25, but the user uses a terminal with different size.
 xq> Telnite will recognize the terminal window and expect the cursor to
 xq> reach at the bottom of it to send a "scroll down" command... but the BBS
 xq> will not let the cursor to go beyond the 25th line (in most cases), so
 xq> you will see the thing you described.
 xq> 
 xq> In some BBSes i visited, some scrollers look fine, even in different
 xq> terminal dimension and in the same BBS, other scrollers show up garbled.
 xq> I think the --width, --height options or adjusting the settings of a
 xq> saved BBS, can reduce/fix the problem, but for sure not 100%.
 xq> 
 xq> .
 xq> :: XQTR :: Another Droid BBS :: andr01d.zapto.org:9999 :: xqtr@gmx.com

I will have to do some more testing when I get back home.. I did try out the --width and --height flags but still had the same issue just FYI.

|15Z|07ylone 

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