Subj : Syncterm vs Netrunner behaviors
To   : All
From : Gryphon
Date : Tue Aug 06 2024 03:45 am

Hi All,

We all have our favorite term programs, I'm sure. I myself perfer Netrunner. I run a Mystic BBS so it seems natural to use Netrunner for that purpose. But I discovered that with NR, when I'm doing some editing on things, say the menu editor or the prompt editor, I noticed that there is no underbar to mark where the cursor sits. So I tried it in Syncterm and I noticed that the cursor was present. So I started using Syncterm when I did edits to the BBS.

However, I noticed something when I was reading messages. I discovered that the ansimrd.ans file was being display, then it was adding a CR which pushed the first line of the ansi off the top edge. I know this is the case because I put a PA mci code at the bottom of the file and then watched it display correctly afer it displayed the file and before it went on to proint the message text in the field.  When I tried the same thing in NR, I could see that it displayed correctly but it did not do the CR after the ansi file displayed and before it populated the text of the message.

I tried a number of things to see if I could fix the issue. I rearranged the order of when some lines were displayed and I even tried to convert it from dos to unix (I run on linux) but nothing I tried seemed to help.

So my question is, is this a known issue with Syncterm? I'm picking on ST here because it consistently fails whereas NR consistently displays correctly. But maybe there's a setting in ST that I can tweek? It makes me wonder now how many times I've seen ansi displays on other boards where the ansi placement was not quite right. 

So, is it just me, or is it a known difference between the two terms?

.... I don't want to go!

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