Re: 9h1006h?
  By: Codefenix to All on Wed Aug 12 2020 05:55 pm

 > This is a long shot, but I figured I'd ask.
 >
 > I recently tried telneting to my own BBS running SBBS 3.18a from my CoCo3
 > connected to an ESP8266 module (which uses the ZiModem firmware). Everything
 > works great, except the terminal occasionally spits out "9h1006h". It
 > appears just before every screen pause prompt and at a few other places,
 > like the auto-generated xtrn menus.
 >
 > Worth noting, I do have a few edits in the text.dat and modopts.ini files,
 > so my first assumption was I made a mistake somewhere in those. However, the
 > BBS looks fine in every other terminal - SyncTERM, NetRunner, and plain
 > linux termanl telnet, so I think it's safe to assume my edits are OK.
 > So, does 9h1006h mean anything to anyone? Or is my ESP8266 just talking
 > gibberish?
 >
 > Like I said, long shot, so thanks if you've read this far.

That's a mouse terminal sequence. Some (bad) terminals don't correctly eat it.
In the latest code, users can disable terminal mouse support (it defaults to
disabled in fact).

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