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    From Deuce@deuce@BBSDEV.remove-11lj-this to Mindsurfer on Thu Oct 23 13:29:43 2025
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    Re: How do you edit msg files
    By: Mindsurfer to MRO on Thu Oct 23 2025 11:33 am

    what do you think would come out if we would create a statistic for non-Ansi/Ansi Terminal use? Who would actually want to or have to use a non-Ansi terminal?

    Retro computer character sets like PETSCII will be non-ANSI, and Synchronet supports PETSCII... that's the most likely one I can think of off-hand.
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  • From Mindsurfer@mindsurfer@FUNTOPIA.remove-wr1-this to Deuce on Thu Oct 23 17:53:00 2025
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    Re: How do you edit msg files
    By: Deuce to Mindsurfer on Thu Oct 23 2025 13:29:43

    what do you think would come out if we would create a statistic for
    non-Ansi/Ansi Terminal use? Who would actually want to or have to use a
    non-Ansi terminal?

    Retro computer character sets like PETSCII will be non-ANSI, and Synchronet supports PETSCII... that's the most likely one I can think of off-hand.

    yep, synchronet (devs) has to maintain that compatibility, because it is part of the feature set.. A sysop can decide if he/she wants to kick compatibility and support Ansi only. 2 different perspectives

    For now i keep up the compatibility until i decide otherwise =)

    but it is extra effort as a sysop, that you do for a very small sub-group of an already small group. so.. i'll see.

    or you offer an extra command shell in your BBS, just for the non-Ansi guys and keep on going full Ansi with your default command shell.


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  • From Digital Man@digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-11vi-this to Mindsurfer on Thu Oct 23 09:58:08 2025
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    Re: How do you edit msg files
    By: Mindsurfer to MRO on Thu Oct 23 2025 11:33 am

    well, i haven't really thought that through. I guess thats a decision every sysop has to make for him/herself at one point. to break the backwards compability or not. That would mean, if you want to have any kind of ansi animation, that would be problematic for non-ansi terminal users?

    Unless you're using Ctrl-A codes or some other form of abstraction, yes, it's problematic for non-ANSI users.

    what do you think would come out if we would create a statistic for non-Ansi/Ansi Terminal use? Who would actually want to or have to use a non-Ansi terminal?

    PETSCII terminals are pretty widely used and I think Nelgin and Deuce are working on some BBC Micro terminal support. These are 2 examples of non-ANSI terminals that user actually use. There's more: ATASCII, VT52, ... but Synchronet does not (yet) support them.
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