Subj : ANSI Forced
To   : deon
From : apam
Date : Tue Jan 02 2024 10:30 am

 >   Re: ANSI Forced
 >   By: The Godfather to All on Mon Jan 01 2024 03:30 pm
 > 
 > Howdy,
 > 
 >  > a default terminal program to load and when I click on the hyperlink it auto
 >  > loads the terminal program and telnets the BBS I selected.  The only thing I
 >  > couldn't figure out was how to get gopher to send ANSI strings during Mystic
 >  > BBS auto detection and as a result it defaults to ASCII.  I didn't see
 >  > anything in the manual of Gopernicus really discussing this at all.  SO I
 >  > set Mystic from AUTO detect to ANSI bbs and it works just fine enough.
 > 
 > So the issue will be the "telnet" program.
 > 
 > ANSI autodetect normally works by using ANSI codes to move the cursor to a location, and then using telnet (IAC) codes to ask the terminal where the cursor is. Some dumb telnet programs may not understand (many of the) telnet IAC codes..
 > 

Not usually IAC codes, ANSI position reporting, that way it works with SSH too. Screen size can be detected with IAC codes, but again, not all terminals support this - so it's generally easier to position the cursor to some non existent space in the bottom right and then report where the cursor actually is - unfortunately this doesn't work with ftelnet though (ftelnet ignores the command if it is out of bounds)

With talisman, if ANSI is not detected, I have it prompt to ask if you want to force ANSI, as there are a lot of times detection doesn't work correctly.

Andrew
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