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    From Aaron Thomas@1:229/426 to All on Thursday, April 09, 2020 13:19:55
    I'm having an issue with Syncterm displaying ansi. Particularly, the very first ansi my BBS displays: a file called username.ans which is a prompt for the username.

    This works perfectly fine with Netrunner..

    But with Syncterm, it *looks* like Syncterm is removing row #1, then my animations are occurring on the wrong rows because of that first row being removed.

    I'll assume that other sysops have encountered and fixed this before? Because it's *only* happening on my BBS with syncterm.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks!

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From Nicholas Boel@1:154/10 to Aaron Thomas on Thursday, April 09, 2020 16:24:50
    Hello Aaron,

    On Thu Apr 09 2020 13:19:54, Aaron Thomas wrote to All:

    I'm having an issue with Syncterm displaying ansi. Particularly, the
    very first ansi my BBS displays: a file called username.ans which is a prompt for the username.

    This works perfectly fine with Netrunner..

    But with Syncterm, it *looks* like Syncterm is removing row #1, then
    my animations are occurring on the wrong rows because of that first
    row being removed.

    I'll assume that other sysops have encountered and fixed this before? Because it's *only* happening on my BBS with syncterm.

    Any suggestions?

    Does your ANSI take up 24 or 25 lines? A lot of times with a terminal program's
    status bar set to on it will cause a 24 or 25 line ansi to scroll up one line. You can try a couple things:

    Disable your status bar in Syncterm and see if it fixes the problem you're seeing. However, that will only fix it for you or anyone that doesn't use a status bar.

    Edit your ansi to only be 23 lines total, and it should work in any terminal program out there. If it absolutely has to be 24 lines, add an escape code to the end of the ansi to reposition the cursor anywhere on the screen besides that 24th line, as once the 24th line of the ansi is displayed there is usually
    something built into the BBS software to automatically go to the next (25th) line before it displays anything else.

    Hope that helps!

    Regards,
    Nick

    ... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway."
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20181215
    * Origin: thePharcyde_ distribution system (Wisconsin) (1:154/10)
  • From Aaron Thomas@1:229/426 to Nicholas Boel on Thursday, April 09, 2020 20:26:03
    Does your ANSI take up 24 or 25 lines? A lot of times with a terminal

    Awesome advice! Thank you!

    I'm going to try these suggestions you gave me and I appreciate it very much!

    Have a good night/day!

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From Aaron Thomas@1:229/426 to Nicholas Boel on Thursday, April 09, 2020 20:38:05
    Edit your ansi to only be 23 lines total, and it should work in any termina

    You were totally right! Thanks again!

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From Nicholas Boel@1:154/10 to Aaron Thomas on Sunday, April 12, 2020 08:26:46
    Hello Aaron,

    On Thu Apr 09 2020 20:26:02, Aaron Thomas wrote to Nicholas Boel:

    Does your ANSI take up 24 or 25 lines? A lot of times with a
    terminal

    Awesome advice! Thank you!

    I'm going to try these suggestions you gave me and I appreciate it
    very much!

    No problem. I hope one of them works! ;)

    Regards,
    Nick

    ... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway."
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20181215
    * Origin: thePharcyde_ distribution system (Wisconsin) (1:154/10)