Subj : DOS BBS software as a door and ANSI detection on Linux
To   : Nightfox
From : Charles Blackburn
Date : Sat Sep 24 2022 03:56 am

  Re: DOS BBS software as a door and ANSI detection on Linux
  By: Nightfox to All on Fri Sep 23 2022 18:51:59

 Ni> 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
 Ni> 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
 Ni> 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
 Ni> DOSEMU? I'm wondering how I can get it to detect whether the user has ANSI capabilities.

under synchronet, there is "dosutils" in there is an ansi.com file... run that right before your door.. have to do that on a couple of other DOS door games that don't recognise the ansi capabilities. give that a whirl

I have a batch file that i run that does that as for example, mayhem requires the node number be in a specific environment variable.


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

that is technically in the door drop file i beleive. the main issue you're going to have maybe the runtime error crap from turbo pascal stuff. having the dosemu flag set to 486 may stop that however.

I just copied my renegade install over from my dosemu drive to a door drive so i'll play with that

regards
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