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  • Weird ASCII problem?

    From poindexter FORTRAN@poindexter.fortran@REALITY.remove-efk-this to All on Sun Jul 19 20:56:29 2020
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    I don't know what happened, but some time in the past few days something changed on my board. The Matrix login displays with proper high ASCII characters, but as soon as I log in and get past the "logging in as Poindexter Fortran", all of the high-ASCII graphic characters are displaying as standard ASCII - the pipe characters around the oneliners are now ASCII pipe "|" characters instead of the proper character that displayed before.

    Help?

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  • From Digital Man@digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-jo-this to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jul 19 22:12:36 2020
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    To: poindexter FORTRAN
    Re: Weird ASCII problem?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sun Jul 19 2020 08:56 pm

    I don't know what happened, but some time in the past few days something changed on my board. The Matrix login displays with proper high ASCII characters, but as soon as I log in and get past the "logging in as Poindexter Fortran", all of the high-ASCII graphic characters are displaying as standard ASCII - the pipe characters around the oneliners are now ASCII pipe "|" characters instead of the proper character that displayed before.

    Help?

    Check your terminal settings in your user defaults (D from the main menu of the classic shell). Sounds like you're set for ASCII-only.

    digital man

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  • From MRO@mro@BBSESINF.remove-h0q-this to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jul 20 01:37:24 2020
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    To: poindexter FORTRAN
    Re: Weird ASCII problem?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sun Jul 19 2020 08:56 pm

    I don't know what happened, but some time in the past few days something changed on my board. The Matrix login displays with proper high ASCII characters, but as soon as I log in and get past the "logging in as Poindexter Fortran", all of the high-ASCII graphic characters are displaying as standard ASCII - the pipe characters around the oneliners are now ASCII pipe "|" characters instead of the proper character that displayed before.

    Help?
    Help?

    go into your account settings and change it
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@poindexter.fortran@REALITY.remove-xgf-this to Digital Man on Mon Jul 20 07:05:00 2020
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    To: Digital Man
    Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Check your terminal settings in your user defaults (D from the main
    menu of the classic shell). Sounds like you're set for ASCII-only.

    Weird, it was set to auto-detect ANSI, but I forced it to ANSI, then
    set it back to auto-detect and now it's OK. Thanks for the tip.

    --pF



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  • From Digital Man@digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-xlz-this to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jul 20 12:44:04 2020
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    To: poindexter FORTRAN
    Re: Re: Weird ASCII problem?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Mon Jul 20 2020 07:05 am

    Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Check your terminal settings in your user defaults (D from the main menu of the classic shell). Sounds like you're set for ASCII-only.

    Weird, it was set to auto-detect ANSI, but I forced it to ANSI, then
    set it back to auto-detect and now it's OK. Thanks for the tip.

    The issue you described was with your characters set (not sending CP437 characters) - separate from the terminal emulation (ANSI).

    digital man

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@poindexter.fortran@REALITY.remove-hde-this to Digital Man on Tue Jul 21 12:05:00 2020
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    To: Digital Man
    Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Weird, it was set to auto-detect ANSI, but I forced it to ANSI, then
    set it back to auto-detect and now it's OK. Thanks for the tip.

    The issue you described was with your characters set (not sending CP437 characters) - separate from the terminal emulation (ANSI).

    It's definitely strange. I get the "logging in as Poindexter Fortran"
    message in fixedsys, then it switches to a proportional looking font,
    looks like courier. My logon1.ans, logon2.ans, logon3.ans files
    stopped displaying as well - maybe because it doesn't think it's an
    ANSI any more?

    In the terminal server log, I see a log entry that shows the terminal
    size/type set to 80x25 ANSI.


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  • From Digital Man@digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-80w-this to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Jul 24 14:13:49 2020
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    To: poindexter FORTRAN
    Re: Re: Weird ASCII problem?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Tue Jul 21 2020 12:05 pm

    Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Weird, it was set to auto-detect ANSI, but I forced it to ANSI, then
    set it back to auto-detect and now it's OK. Thanks for the tip.

    The issue you described was with your characters set (not sending CP437 characters) - separate from the terminal emulation (ANSI).

    It's definitely strange. I get the "logging in as Poindexter Fortran"
    message in fixedsys, then it switches to a proportional looking font,
    looks like courier.

    That sounds like the SyncTERM custom font support being controlled from ctrl/fonts.ini:
    http://wiki.synchro.net/config:fonts.ini

    My logon1.ans, logon2.ans, logon3.ans files
    stopped displaying as well - maybe because it doesn't think it's an
    ANSI any more?

    Do you have .asc or .msg equivalents of those files?

    In the terminal server log, I see a log entry that shows the terminal
    size/type set to 80x25 ANSI.

    Cool. That's probably the auto-detected terminal configuration. You user configuration can over-ride that.

    digital man

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  • From HusTler@hustler@HAVENS.remove-i86-this to poindexter FORTRAN[M0Y7 on Wed Jul 29 11:28:26 2020
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    To: poindexter FORTRAN[M0Y7
    Re: Re: Weird ASCII problem?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Sat Jul 25 2020 08:18 am

    My logon1.ans, logon2.ans, logon3.ans files
    stopped displaying as well - maybe because it doesn't think it's an
    ANSI any more?

    Do you have .asc or .msg equivalents of those files?

    No, just the ANSI formatted .ans files.

    I've noticed the same behavior with Netrunner.

    You need a logon1.asc logon2.asc logon3.asc or logon1.msg logon2.msg logon3.msg you can use the utility ans2asc to convert your ans files to asc files. Like this ans2asc logon1.ans logon1.asc Then Synchronet will display your ans files.

    HusTler
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  • From Digital Man@digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-9bh-this to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Aug 1 12:01:13 2020
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    To: poindexter FORTRAN
    Re: Re: Weird ASCII problem?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Sat Jul 25 2020 08:18 am

    Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    My logon1.ans, logon2.ans, logon3.ans files
    stopped displaying as well - maybe because it doesn't think it's an
    ANSI any more?

    Do you have .asc or .msg equivalents of those files?

    No, just the ANSI formatted .ans files.

    That would be incorrect then. You must have at least the .msg or .asc variant of a display/menu file for it to be shown to a user.
    http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:menu_files

    digital man

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