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Message   winston.xoom    bruno....   Re: Configure Mystic bbs for text only terminal   October 15, 2018
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On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 1:49:49 PM UTC-5, bruno....@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >  br> i'm setting up a bbs using Mystic BBS software but i've encountered a
> >  br> problem that i can't solve: is there a way to configure it for text
only
> >  br> terminals? I'm using a Sinclair Spectrum to connect but i always got
> >  br> characters that are not interpreted by the (real simple) terminal
> >  br> program. My focus is a bbs for computers such as Commodore 64, MSX,
etc.
> >  br> etc. and they don't have ansi-bbs...
> >
> > Should be able to. Just use all straight .asc files in the TEXT folder,
have
> > the BBS set to detect the codepage and emulation.
>
> Tried, but i still get ansi characters:
>
>  (U [8;25;80t [1;25r [1;1H [2J [1;1H [1;1H [2J [1;1HMystic BBS v1.12 A35 for
Linux Node 1
>  [2;1HCopyright (C) 1997-2017 By James Coyle
>  [3;1H
>  [4;1H(0) Ascii (No Color)
>  [5;1H(1) Ansi  (Color)
>  [6;1H
>  [7;1HGraphics Mode -> 0
>  [8;1H
>  [9;1H[0] MS-DOS CP437
>  [10;1H[1] UTF-8
>  [11;1H
>  [12;1HSelect Terminal Codepage [Enter = CP437]: 1
>  [13;1H
>  [14;1HAvailable themes:
>  [15;1H
>  [16;1H   1 ..... HAL's theme
>  [17;1H   2 ..... Default
>  [18;1H
>  [19;1HSelect your theme [Enter/Default]: 1
>  [20;1H
>  [21;1H
>  [22;1H      ==================================
>
> As you can see at the very start of each line i got unexpected characters.
How i can avoid this behaviour?
>
> Thanks,
> Bruno

Can someone provide an EXAMPLE of say the prelogin.mnu configured as an ASCII
prelogin TEXT menu. I do have mystic setup anormat BBSd running but I just want
 a plain old retro ascii BBS and this package just aint cutting it.

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