Subj : COMADORE
To   : Codefenix
From : MRO
Date : Fri Dec 09 2022 03:57 pm

  Re: COMADORE
  By: Codefenix to HusTler on Fri Dec 09 2022 11:05 am

 >   By: HusTler to theviper on Mon Dec 05 2022 09:24 pm
 >
 >  Hu> You have a 30/70 chance your ansi will display correctly. It depends
 >  Hu> what method (software) you use and which BBS's you post it on. Making
 >  Hu> an ASCII ad like MRO suggested would be the best thing.
 >
 > The thing that I've found that works best is saving the finished ANSI so it
 > has a maximum length of 79 or fewer characters per line. I'm referring to
 > the line length internally within the file, and not the visual row width you
 > see when you view it in the editor. There's a difference.

I always shoot for 77
also no clear screen or cursor positioning or 'ansimation'

 >
 > Any lines longer than 79 characters get line-wrapped by some BBS message
 > readers, which is why they end up looking garbled. Look at (but don't edit)
 > one of the SDT files in your /sbbs/data/subs for your networked ad echoes
 > sometime, and you'll see that the ads that originate from Mystic BBSes
 > almost never have a line length longer than 79 for this reason. The built-in
 > Mystic ANSI editor offers this option by default, and so does AcidDraw. I
 > personally use AcidDraw to do one final save when I prepare something as an
 > ad.

oh i'm surprised people still use aciddraw. usually people use pablodraw or something.

regardless, i LIKE ansi ads. i think they belong in the ad section.

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