using a terminal ession in rocky linux 10 via cockpit web interface.

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Ncurses is an interesting interface with ANSI. Different terminal emulaters show the characters and colors in a different way, and
sometimes the ESC key doesn't work, so I have to use 'ctrl + [' .

Different question, Is Midnight Commander relying on NCurses? I found it very unstable under iTerm2 on MacOS. lot of CTRL+L to refresh the damn thing.

I was always blaming Ncurses for that as I found also some different apps that rely on it and are not always compatible with my still favorite terminal emulator

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On 09 Oct 2025, hollowone said the following...

Ncurses is an interesting interface with ANSI. Different terminal emulaters show the characters and colors in a different way, and sometimes the ESC key doesn't work, so I have to use 'ctrl + [' .

Different question, Is Midnight Commander relying on NCurses? I found it very unstable under iTerm2 on MacOS. lot of CTRL+L to refresh the damn thing.

I was always blaming Ncurses for that as I found also some different
apps that rely on it and are not always compatible with my still
favorite terminal emulator

the entire purpose of ncurses (besides just making it easier to write textmode apps) is to ask terminfo/termcap how to manage your screen so it works on a wide variety of terminals

that that's gotten messed up is either annoying from the distro side (so i guess apple?) or annoying because you broke it somehow? haha

i kid i kid.. but really, that's a story as old as *nix itself :)

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Re: Re: ansi art software lin
By: hollowone to bbsing on Thu Oct 09 2025 07:08:00

Ncurses is an interesting interface with ANSI. Different terminal emulaters show the characters and colors in a different way, and

Different question, Is Midnight Commander relying on NCurses? I found it very unstable under iTerm2 on MacOS. lot of CTRL+L to refresh the damn

Yes midnight commander on linux systems is relying on curses/ncurses library.

Depending on what terminal being used to access the system and its specific settings the ctrl keys and alt key sequenes often don't work the same. Even the window curses paints may not look the same through different terminal programs. I've also found sometimes when connecting to a remote system that system may not recieve your terminal settings (vt100, vt102), for the TERM variable.

below is a partial list of dependencies: URL:https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/blob/master/doc/INSTALL ----------------------------------------
Build requirements for GNU Midnight Commander
---------------------------------------------
- glibc or uClibc or musl
- https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
- https://uclibc.org
- https://www.musl-libc.org
- gcc or clang
- https://gcc.gnu.org
- https://clang.llvm.org
- make
- https://www.gnu.org/software/make/
- autoconf >= 2.64
- https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
- automake >= 1.14
- https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
- libtool
- https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/
- pkg-config (optional)
- https://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/
- glib2 >= 2.32
- https://www.gtk.org
- slang2 or ncurses screen library

that rely on it and are not always compatible with my still favorite terminal emulator

What is your favorite terminal emulator?

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What is your favorite terminal emulator?

iTerm2 on MacOs is my daily shell.

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bbsing wrote to Digital Man <=-

Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to Digital Man on Tue Sep 08 2026 04:51 am

You want a remote (ANSI) BBS user to be able to run SyncDraw? I don't know

if

it was designed for that. Probably a question for Deuce.

Yeah that was my intent.

Mostly for me, but for anyone else within the system.
A couple days ago I went to the link https://syncdraw.bbsdev.net/ and clicked contact, that took me the developers board, as guest I sent a message asking if the person has the time to send a message over here.

I want to be able to login to my board and try and work on my ansi and ascii screens.

Just curious, but... why? Why the need to be logged in to work on them?

Can't you just work on them offline and upload/update after making
changes?



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if

Just curious, but... why? Why the need to be logged in to work on them?

Can't you just work on them offline and upload/update after making
changes?

In my case when I'm not at work, all my computing is done via ssh terminal, not using a GUI so being able to just login via syncterm, or ssh to the BBS is why I'm hoping to integrate syncdraw into the synchronet bbs (my instance).

If syncdraw was within the BBS terminal then using ftelnet where the wss ports are not blocked, I could also work on the BBS syncdraw while remote.

Of course doing it the other way is possible, but I don't think that is really the issue.

There are lots of ways to get news, gopher, messages, emails, multitudes of things outside of anyone's BBS.

BBS operators want integrations, that make their boards unique. In this case I think the way to look at it is not via a justification of can't you do it another way, but rather is it possible to do it via the BBS through its terminal services interface.

If always can't you do it another way; which I do a lot of, then nothing enters into the BBS terminal as a feature or service.

I think syncdraw via the BBS terminal services would be a neat feature similar to /meme , the avatars, ... etc.

BBsing, Sysop of Lunar Outpost, lunarout.sycnhro.net

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Re: Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to Gamgee on Thu Sep 10 2026 10:46:44

I think syncdraw via the BBS terminal services would be a neat feature similar to /meme , the avatars, ... etc.

I'd use it.

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