-=> Quoting Matt Bedynek to Michael Andrews <=-

 MB> Also another nice feature would be to have ANSI 
 MB> detection. Binkley can
 MB> display ANSI codes but when calling a BBS, ANSI detection does not
 MB> work when calling with Bink's Terminal. 

 KW> This opens up a whole can of worms.  BinkleyTerm's terminal  is bare- 
 KW> bones  to  say  the  least. It's  not a  very important  part of  the 
 KW> program, and doesn't detract in any way from the use of the system.

 KW> I'd like to see an ANSI  emulation that  doesn't rely  on ANSI.SYS  - 

Actually with Max 3.01, ANSI detection does work. Noticed that when I
called my son's W95 Bink/Max BBS from my Bink NT setup. I didn't have ansi
enabled with NT, when Max 3.01 (DOS) came up, it gave me a not about not
detecting ANSI, and put me in full glowing black and white. Don't know
about Bink os/2 or Bink DOS, but ansi detection seems to work ok with Bink
NT and Max 3.01 DOS.

 KW> with Bink/2 and Bink/NT, neither provided a driver that worked in the 
 KW> console screens consistently.

 KW> There's a  glitch in  using ANSI  emulation as  a VT102  - it  mostly 


With Bink DOS, you could kick it into DOORWAY mode with the ALT + = Key.
That gave  Bink a pretty good ANSI/IBM-PC keyboard emulation, that worked
quite well with MAX and most other BBS packages making thier full screen
editors much easier to use. I miss not having that "feature" in
the 32 bit versions of Binkley. Over the years I found it quite useful.
Hope someday it gets put back into the 32 bit versions of Bink.

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