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Skriven 2013-07-26 11:23:22 av Benny Pedersen (2:230/0)
  Kommentar till text 16675 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
Ärende: just the facts
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Hello Maurice!

26 Jul 2013 00:47, Maurice Kinal wrote to Gary Perkins:

 MK> Hey Gary!

 GP>> Synchronet distributes an "ansi-bbs" termcap that's equivilent to
 GP>> MSDOS's ANSI capabilities.

 MK> No thank you.  I don't do MSDOS anything, thank goodness.  This is a 
 MK> pure linux box and I'd rather rot in hell than emulate Microsoft.  A 
 MK> bunch of lowlifes methinks including (especially?) the 
 MK> pretenders/emulators.  :::evil grin:::

why not start today ?

get a commodore 128D with reu1750 and see whole 640K ram, and cpm with DBase 2
from ibm :)

worst is that commodore says microsoft on boot bios screen here, with no
updates at all, it for once worked in the first place ?, like windows 8 do
today ?

 MK> Also while I am at it, Synchronet can't even get ascii correct as it 
 MK> pertains to packed msgs, not to mention the totally corrupted MSGID it 
 MK> creates.  Extremely poor behavior without requiring even looking at 
 MK> any bogus MSDOS's ANSI capabilities.

and i cant get unicode to work here, so what ?

 GP>> I have it installed on my system, and it works quite nicely.

 MK> Not from what I see in the message I am replying to or at least not as 
 MK> it pertains to the additional <LF>'s and the aforementioned corrupted 
 MK> MSGID.

synchronet is imho opensource like linux, why not resolve it ? :)

 MK> You can keep it.  I am sticking with the 'linux' terminal.  It can do 
 MK> the ansi colourization etc. without needing to fake it.

what about your sister so ? :)

 MK> Life is good,

on a hot summernight 

 MK> Maurice

 MK> ... that path is sharp as a razor's edge - Katha Upanishad
 MK> -+- GNU bash, version 4.2.45(2)-release (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
 MK>  + Origin: Pointy Stick Society - Ladysmith, BC Canada (1:261/38.9)


 Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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