Subj : Re: Python/Term Emulation
To   : opicron
From : DustCouncil
Date : Mon May 26 2025 08:42 pm

 op>  Du> One of the scripts on my system is the popular IBOL (interBBS OneLine
 op>  Du>  This will print an ANSI header regardless of terminal emulation, and
 op>  Du> Python is not very well documented on the Mystic wiki. What I'd reall
 op>  Du> do is detect terminal emulation and either print the .ANS if ANSI emu
 op>  Du> in effect, otherwise print the ASC, but I have no idea how to determi
 op>  Du> this in Python.
 op>  Du> 
 op>  Du> What I want to do is determine the terminal emulation and put an if-t
 op>  Du> statement either selecting the .ANS or .ASC file accordingly.
 op> To determine yourself if you need ANS or ASC, you can use mci2str('SI')
 op> which will return ASCII or ANSI.
 op>  * Origin: TheForze - bbs.theforze.eu:23 (21:3/126)

Thanks for the response.  It looks like the showfile() function has this capability built in, wherein you specify something like:

showfile("filename") without an extension and Mystic applies the right one based on terminal emulation.

Answering myself here in case anyone else searches on this.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Shipwrecks & Shibboleths [San Francisco, CA - USA] (21:1/227)

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