open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/216

The output of bbs.atcode() does not match other parsing such as bbs.menu()

For example bbs.atcode("TIME-L") is missing the "am" or "pm" and bbs.atcode("ALIAS|L20") returns null whereas bbs.atcode("ALIAS") returns my username.

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/216#note_1464

You can't use the output formatting stuff with bbs.atcode(). In JavaScript, you have plenty of other methods of formatting (e.g. padding, truncating, aligning) the output.

This is by design.

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/216#note_1465

Looks like `js_atcode()` has *some* output formatting support (for `-L` and `-R` only). Ugh. It's lacking a lot of formatting options.

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/216#note_1466

The main complication is using menu files in frame.js, that is the only way it can parse them is with bbs.atcodes()

Another alternative would be if there was a bbs.menu() equivalent command that could return a string instead of printing to the screen

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/216#note_1467

Looks like @Deuce added some copy/pasta to js_atcode() 13 years ago to teach it about the -L and -R format arguments and the code was not kept in-sync with the source (`sbbs_t::show_atcode()`).

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