Subj : Re: ANSI in Ubuntu terminal; dumb ? whats the fix...
To   : ryan
From : Paulie420
Date : Mon Apr 27 2020 04:28 pm

  Re: Re: ANSI in Ubuntu terminal; dumb ? whats the fix...
  By: ryan to Paulie420 on Sun Apr 26 2020 11:04 pm

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

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

 ry> One piece of advice would be to clone https://github.com/keaston/cp437 -
 ry> build it, put it in /usr/local/bin or some place on your path, and then
 ry> precede every command relating to ansi with cp437:
 ry> cp437 cat ansi.ans
 ry> It'll "just work" and you won't have any terminal compatibility issues
 ry> with utf8 or anything :)

Thanks ryan - it almost works perfect... ANSI is a little different than CP437, but this does give me something better than not having anything installed. I use Acid Draw to edit, but this cp437 command lets me at least see an .ANS -mostly- corect. 

Thanks kindly.

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