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    From ryan@21:1/168 to All on Wed Mar 11 13:44:34 2020
    Hey dudes,

    I found a decent way to work with ansi (viewing and editing) in a linux terminal. I'm posting this to help other people that would benefit from this.

    First, get cp437 from https://github.com/keaston/cp437 - use 'make' and then copy the 'cp437' executable to /usr/local/bin or something

    Next, get duhdraw from https://github.com/nikolas/duhdraw - use 'make' to compile it, then copy the 'ansi' and 'duhdraw' binaries to /usr/local/bin

    Now, when you want to edit an ansi in a terminal window, do
    cp437 duhdraw /path/to/ansi

    Good to go :) if you want to just view an ansi
    cp437 ansi /path/to/ansi

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to ryan on Thu Mar 12 12:10:58 2020
    Now, when you want to edit an ansi in a terminal window, do
    cp437 duhdraw /path/to/ansi

    You can also do ./mystic -ansi /path/to/ansi as long as you're not doing block copy/move anyway. I gotta get back to updating that at some point soon.

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  • From nristen@21:1/161 to g00r00 on Thu Mar 12 13:57:20 2020
    cp437 duhdraw /path/to/ansi

    You can also do ./mystic -ansi /path/to/ansi as long as you're not doing

    Thank you both for this mention.

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