Subj : ANSI, BIN, SAUCE, and EOF
To   : Kirkman
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Apr 29 2015 03:23 pm

  Re: ANSI, BIN, SAUCE, and EOF
  By: Kirkman to All on Wed Apr 29 2015 02:50 pm

 > One frustration when playing with ANSI or BIN files using frame.js is SAUCE.
 >
 > I understood from the SAUCE spec that SAUCE stuff comes after an EOF
 > character '\0X1A', which generally prevented old terminals and programs from
 > processing the SAUCE info.
 >
 > This doesn't seem to stop Frame.js. It attempts to render the sauce info as
 > if it was graphic information.
 >
 > I want to propose that Frame.js be adjusted to recognize SAUCE records.
 >
 > There could be a lot of benefits from parsing SAUCE records, like getting a
 > file's width and height and not needing it specified in code. That'd be a
 > handy feature. However, I recognize that parsing SAUCE is probably asking
 > way too much.
 >
 > So how about if Frame.js could at least look for SAUCE and strip/ignore it
 > while parsing the ANSI or BIN file?

Or just stop processing the ANSI file when a Ctrl-Z (CP/M EOF) character is 
read. Synchronet itself will not send Ctrl-Z characters contained in .ASC/.ANS 
files to the user, but it doesn't stop processing the file. I imagine if you 
had sauce information in ANSI files that were displayed in the general text 
file section or as logon messages or menus, you'd have a very similar issue.

                                            digital man

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