Hi all,

hope all is well.

I am trying to setup a "posttextfile" using mutil, in ANSI. I've added the words [ANSI] to the beginning of the subject line, within the .ini. In addition, have sure no pipe codes are within the .ans file, it's 75x17 in
size. It loads perfectly if I upload it within a post (/U) but when using
the posttextfile stanza, the ANSI gets completely currupted beyond what would appear to be line wrap issues.

Has anyone else experienced this and found the secret sauce to fix it? And / or is there a step or "thing" I'm missing?

Any ideas would be appreciated!

-tG

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Hi all,

hope all is well.

I am trying to setup a "posttextfile" using mutil, in ANSI. I've
added the words [ANSI] to the beginning of the subject line, within
the .ini. In addition, have sure no pipe codes are within the .ans
file, it's 75x17 in size. It loads perfectly if I upload it within
a post (/U) but when using the posttextfile stanza, the ANSI gets completely currupted beyond what would appear to be line wrap
issues.

Has anyone else experienced this and found the secret sauce to fix

Save it in the draw as a maximum of 79 characters wide. That will save
it with a maximum of 79 chars including ansi codes and stop it from
getting linewrapped




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Save it in the draw as a maximum of 79 characters wide. That will save
it with a maximum of 79 chars including ansi codes and stop it from getting linewrapped

I did that in Pablo draw, and the ansi file is only around 73 characters wide to begin with. I can try Tdraw if Pablo does not allow the same function you describe above?

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Save it in the draw as a maximum of 79 characters wide. That
will save it with a maximum of 79 chars including ansi codes
and stop it from getting linewrapped

I did that in Pablo draw, and the ansi file is only around 73
characters wide to begin with. I can try Tdraw if Pablo does not
allow the same function you describe above?

The problem is the text including ansi codes for things like changing
colour adds up to over 79 chars.

The draw can save it so it uses cursor positioning to make the source of
the ansi file 79 chars or less wide


Andrew




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Thanks for the tip. I tried the suggestion, however I'm still discovering a solution. Tdraw was unable to fix the issue. Like I said, I can load it
using /U from within a post, locally, and it displays fine. Its only when using the stanza for posttextfile.ini

-tG

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Thanks for the tip. I tried the suggestion, however I'm still discovering a solution. Tdraw was unable to fix the issue. Like I said, I can load it using /U from within a post, locally, and it displays fine.

That's true, when you save an ansi with mystic's ansi editor it saves it in block mode so they always look good in messages.

You can also save an ansi in the draw in block mode but I forget how to do that
but it's in the settings or an option when saving.

Its only when using the stanza for posttextfile.ini

Mutil's PostTextFile option is limited to 79 (or it might be 80) characters even with plain text. If you post a message with lines longer than that it gets
truncated so that's something to keep in mind also.

I would think that posting a message with mutil would work OK as long as it is saved in block mode but I don't have such a file to try myself.

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Thanks for the tip. I tried the suggestion, however I'm still
discovering a solution. Tdraw was unable to fix the issue. Like I
said, I can load it using /U from within a post, locally, and it
displays fine. Its only when using the stanza for posttextfile.ini

That's right, because /U converts it to 79 characters wide. Pablodraw
does not.

TheDraw when you save the file, gives you an option to save width, you
need to say 79 here.

The issue is an ANSI file contains visible characters and invisible "ANSI codes" together these make a width of greater than 79 characters, and
mystic wraps messages at 80 characters.

When you save with a maximum width in thedraw (or "block mode" as Al
calls it) it will convert the ansi to a way that fits within this 79
character message width restriction.

It does this by splitting the lines up and then using cursor control to
go up and across to draw the rest of the line it split.

Without saving the ansi at 79 chars (regardless of how wide your visible characters are) it will wrap at 80 chars, and you will see lines cut in
half.

Andrew


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The Godfather wrote to All <=-

Has anyone else experienced this and found the secret sauce to fix it?
And / or is there a step or "thing" I'm missing?

I know I ran into similar problems posting the ANSI
"Space Report for BZ&BZ BBS" in the bot channel.
I'm building the ANSI and text files with python, so
I'm able to mangle it any way I like.

At 70 chars, I save the cursor postion ESC[s and
the next line I restore ESC[u and finish the line.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

Using thedraw is probably the easiest way to do that,
but I've read you haven't had luck with that. :(

Is the file somewhere to be downloaded? I'll give it
a whack. Or upload it to BZ&BZ?

Take care,
bugz

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The problem is the text including ansi codes for things like changing colour adds up to over 79 chars.
The draw can save it so it uses cursor positioning to make the source of the ansi file 79 chars or less wide

So Stizzed (Michael) put the ANSI file into his TheDraw and did the same
exact thing of saving at 79 lines, and now it works. So I'm just using that file :) I wonder if it has to do with my DOSbox version and or Windows 10/64bit? I followed your directions to a T and no go. Weird. But anyway,
I stand corrected, and yes, you were right :) Thanks again for your reply.

tG

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The problem is the text including ansi codes for things like
changing colour adds up to over 79 chars.
The draw can save it so it uses cursor positioning to make the
source of the ansi file 79 chars or less wide

So Stizzed (Michael) put the ANSI file into his TheDraw and did the
same exact thing of saving at 79 lines, and now it works. So I'm
just using that file :) I wonder if it has to do with my DOSbox
version and or Windows 10/64bit? I followed your directions to a T
and no go. Weird. But anyway, I stand corrected, and yes, you
were right :) Thanks again for your reply.

That is weird. I'm glad you got it working though.

It's one of those questions that comes up fairly regularly, and often
there is misunderstanding between the width of the source of the file vs
the width of what you see rendered.

Probably should put something on the wiki with screenshots.

Andrew


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