Hello

I can generated UTF-8 ANSI ASCII ART from pictures (Linux).

How to convert them to *.ans format MysticBBS supports?

I tried to use "cat pic.ans | iconv -f utf-8 -t 437" but with no luck. Terminal shows them correctly, but MysticBBS don't print ANSI art correctly when using BBS (no colors etc).

What I should do?

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How to convert them to *.ans format MysticBBS supports?

http://slackers.ddns.net/downloads.html

You can find all the best ANSi editors at the link above; I prefer Mobieus.

For converting from UTF-8 to ANSi, thats a toughy. However, anything that looks right (and is saved) using any of the ANSi editors at the above link, or saved using Mystic's built-in ANSi editor, will display thru Mystic correctly.



|07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
|08.........

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
* Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)

I tried to use "cat pic.ans | iconv -f utf-8 -t 437" but with no luck. Terminal shows them correctly, but MysticBBS don't print ANSI art correctly when using BBS (no colors etc).

Shot in the dark here but try the cp437 program - https://github.com/keaston/cp437

"cp437 cat pic.ans | iconv -f utf-8 -t 437" or something like that?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)

I tried to use "cat pic.ans | iconv -f utf-8 -t 437" but with no luck Terminal shows them correctly, but MysticBBS don't print ANSI art correctly when using BBS (no colors etc).

Shot in the dark here but try the cp437 program - https://github.com/keaston/cp437

Create an alias in .bashrc, or similar;

alias ans='iconv -t cp437 -f utf8'

Then, just type 'ans filename.ans' and b00m; Bob's yer uncle.



|07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
|08.........

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
* Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)