Subj : Re: Telnite // Python3 telnet client (Termux)
To   : Zylone
From : xqtr
Date : Wed May 18 2022 05:00 pm

 Zy> Hey xqtr, maybe I should try out some other terminals.. but my daily drive
 Zy> right now is alacritty.. and some of the screens on my are scrollers.. and
 Zy> seems to just load the first 25 lines, and the last line actually scrolls 
 Zy> rest of the ansi.. again, havn't spent a whole lot of time testing it so f
 Zy>  nor other terminals.. but so far that seems to be the only thing not work
 Zy> on my end

Yes this is an issue. Telnite uses the terminal to scroll the window when it reaches at the bottom. If your terminal window dimensions are 80x25 and the BBS is built around that size, then it's all fine and it should display the scrollers fine. 

Problems start when the size of the terminal is different... for example a BBS uses size 80x25, but the user uses a terminal with different size. Telnite will recognize the terminal window and expect the cursor to reach at the bottom of it to send a "scroll down" command... but the BBS will not let the cursor to go beyond the 25th line (in most cases), so you will see the thing you described.

In some BBSes i visited, some scrollers look fine, even in different terminal dimension and in the same BBS, other scrollers show up garbled. I think the --width, --height options or adjusting the settings of a saved BBS, can reduce/fix the problem, but for sure not 100%.

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