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

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

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

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

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ryan wrote to Paulie420 <=-

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

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

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

It'll "just work" and you won't have any terminal compatibility
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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Wow, great tip there! I did the above and it works (almost)
perfectly. Very helpful little utility to have.

Yeah, it works pretty well :) I use it a lot. I actually also cloned
'duhdraw' (it's also on github if you search for it, would paste link but on iPad) and now I can 'cp437 duhdraw' and have an in-terminal accurate ANSI editor.

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ryan wrote to Gamgee <=-

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

Yeah, it works pretty well :) I use it a lot. I actually also
cloned 'duhdraw' (it's also on github if you search for it, would
paste link but on iPad) and now I can 'cp437 duhdraw' and have an in-terminal accurate ANSI editor.

Nice. Hadn't heard of that one, either.

I tried it and it seems to work. A couple of things I notice are
that it doesn't go full-screen, so the work area is kind of small.
Also did not have any luck using the "line draw" function (like in
TheDraw where you make lines/corners with F-keys).

I actually use TheDraw quite a bit in a DosBox environment and it
works perfectly.

Thanks again.



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I tried it and it seems to work. A couple of things I notice are
that it doesn't go full-screen, so the work area is kind of small.
Also did not have any luck using the "line draw" function (like in TheDraw where you make lines/corners with F-keys).

Ah, yeah, it might be locked to 80x25, not sure...but that would make sense. That said, duhdraw has worked well for me to do BBS stuff in an ssh session through putty, which works great for my purposes.

I hadn't heard about those TheDraw features, but my BBS is probably 98% ascii art format so not a big deal for me hehe.

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

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

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

One piece of advice would be to clone https://github.com/keaston/cp437 - build it, put it in /usr/local/bin or some place on your path, and then precede every command relating to ansi with cp437:
cp437 cat ansi.ans
It'll "just work" and you won't have any terminal compatibility issues 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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You can change your terminal emulation most likely to ansi or something like that, but I think you'll wind up with traditional cli applications maybe not displaying correctly.

I wonder... if you have more than one terminal emulator, like say both lxterminal and gnome-terminal, could you change only one of them to be ansi
and leave the other one as is. Then, when you want to see ansi, you use terminal package a, and otherwise use b.


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I wonder... if you have more than one terminal emulator, like say both lxterminal and gnome-terminal, could you change only one of them to be ans and leave the other one as is. Then, when you want to see ansi, you use terminal package a, and otherwise use b.

I'm not sure if the character encoding comes from the actual terminal
emulator itself or if it's something presented from within the tty.

If the former, then yeah, should work great.

If the latter, maybe we could just write a script to switch character
encoding from one thing to another on the fly.

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