Subj : DOS BBS software as a door and ANSI detection on Linux
To   : Charles Blackburn
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Sep 24 2022 11:11 am

  Re: DOS BBS software as a door and ANSI detection on Linux
  By: Charles Blackburn to Nightfox on Sat Sep 24 2022 03:56 am

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

I'll try that.  Thanks.

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

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

RemoteAccess is an entire BBS program though, and as such, it wasn't written to run as a door, and thus doesn't read drop files.

Nightfox
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