Subj : RemoteAccess
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Oct 30 2022 02:56 pm

  Re: RemoteAccess
  By: Nightfox to Charles Blackburn on Mon Sep 26 2022 01:52 pm

 >   Re: DOS BBS software as a door and ANSI detection on Linux
 >   By: Charles Blackburn to Nightfox on Mon Sep 26 2022 02:23 pm
 >
 >  CB> is there a way to force it to use a certain terminal type (in this case
 >  CB> ANSI) ??
 >
 > I was wondering that.  I was looking at the RA documentation (RA.DOC), which
 > has a section for RA.EXE command-line parameters, but I didn't see such a
 > parameter.  Also, I was looking in Synchronet's documentation for running
 > doors, and it looked like there was no parameter to specify whether the user
 > has ANSI or not.  I think Synchronet expects doors to detect user's ANSI
 > capabilities.

Normally a door either drum the terminal capabilities from a drop file (preferred) or dynamically detect them.

 > RemoteAccess normally detects ANSI when a user connects though (including
 > when another program passes a modem connection to it), so I know RA has that
 > capability.

Does RA have a command-line option to specify ANSI support?
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