Subj : DOS BBS software as a door and ANSI detection on Linux
To   : All
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Sep 23 2022 06:51 pm

I'm currently running my BBS using Synchronet on Linux.  I have DOSEMU2 set up for DOS-based doors.  I've set up my old RemoteAccess BBS setup from the 90s to run as a door, and it runs, but it seems it's not detecting the user's ANSI capabilities, and it's reverting to no ANSI.  I'm curious if anyone has set up any DOS BBS software as a door in Linux with DOSEMU?  I'm wondering how I can get it to detect whether the user has ANSI capabilities.

I've checked the command-line parameters for RA.EXE (RemoteAccess), and it doesn't have a parameter to force ANSI.  But it also looks like Synchronet doesn't provide a command-line option to specify whether the user's terminal supports ANSI.  (unless I missed something in the docs..)

Nightfox
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