Subj : Re: Packet BBS?
To   : Lars Kellogg-Stedman
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Nov 15 2023 10:52 am

  Re: Re: Packet BBS?
  By: Lars Kellogg-Stedman to Avon on Fri Nov 10 2023 05:59 pm

 > -=> Avon wrote to Lars Kellogg-Stedman <=-
 >
 >  Av> I also think doing work on a BBS theme that is ASCII only menus and
 >  Av> stripped down to the main things you would want to access over the air
 >  Av> (main menu, message menu, login, logoff) would be the way to go.
 >
 > One of the limitations I'm running into is that BBS software really
 > likes "hotkeys" (e.g, prompt responses that don't require a
 > carriage return). This is particularly problematic with Synchronet's
 > backspace detection; using a typical ax.25 terminal session, there's no way
 > to respond appropriately because text isn't sent to the remote until
 > after pressing "return", and things like backspace/delete are never
 > sent.

The sysop can disable the new-user backspace detection by setting that string 
(in text.dat or preferably, in v3.20, text.ini) to a blank string.
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