Re: Logon Screens
  By: Nightfox to HusTler on Tue Jun 04 2019 09:35 am

 >   Re: Logon Screens
 >   By: HusTler to all on Mon Jun 03 2019 08:08 pm
 >
 >  Hu>> I've been meaning to ask about that. I get the ans2asc and asc2ans
 >  Hu>> and have been using them. What is a msg file? Why no ans2msg or
 >  Hu>> asc2msg? Is this another syncronet creation?
 >
 >  Hu> I read the wiki and still don't "get it".
 >
 >  Hu> .asc ASCII characters (CP437 characters, optionally)
 >  Hu> .msg ASCII/CP437 characters 1)
 >  Hu> .seq PETSCII characters and control-sequences
 >  Hu> .ans ASCII/CP437 characters and ANSI X3.64 Terminal control-sequences
 >  Hu> .mon ASCII/CP437 characters and ANSI X3.64 Terminal control-sequences
 >  Hu> suited for monochrome displays
 >  Hu> .rip ASCII/CP437 characters and RIPscrip Terminal control-sequences
 >
 > What specifically do you not get?  Do you have any specific questions?
 > Personally I'm still a little confused about how .msg and .asc are supposed
 > to be different.  It sounds like they both can contain ASCII and CP437
 > characters, and I know they both can contain Synchronet color/attribute
 > codes that will be displayed only if the user has a compatible (ANSI)
 > terminal.  I'm not sure why I'd choose .msg over .asc and vice-versa.

If you only have one flavor or the other (.msg or .asc), then there is no real
difference. But if you have *both* flavors, then the .asc file will be chosen
over .msg for users with terminals that do *NOT* support extended-ASCII
(CP437). Likewise, .msg will be chosen over .asc for users with terminals that
*do* support extended-ASCII.

                                            digital man

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