Subj : Re: ANSI in Ubuntu terminal; dumb ? whats the fix...
To   : ryan
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon Apr 27 2020 08:43 am

-=> ryan wrote to Paulie420 <=-

 Pa> I want to have my Ubuntu [KDE Neon] system display ANSI correctly at the
 Pa> terminal prompt... by just like cat ansi.ans

 ry> You can change your terminal emulation most likely to ansi or
 ry> something like that, but I think you'll wind up with traditional
 ry> cli applications maybe not displaying correctly.

 ry> One piece of advice would be to clone
 ry> https://github.com/keaston/cp437 - build it, put it in
 ry> /usr/local/bin or some place on your path, and then precede every
 ry> command relating to ansi with cp437: cp437 cat ansi.ans

 ry> It'll "just work" and you won't have any terminal compatibility
 ry> issues with utf8 or anything :)

Wow, great tip there!  I did the above and it works (almost) 
perfectly.  Very helpful little utility to have.

Thanks for sharing that.



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