IK> character" message for one line out of a hundred or two.  But, 
 IK> worse, the resulting bbs file, when DISPLAYED by Oracle, was 
 IK> chockablock full of command codes shown as normal characters 
 IK> (not functioning). 
 RJT> figuring anything out.  On the other hand,  when I'd 
 RJT> run ANS2MEC I'd look at the resulting file with a text 
 RJT> editor and take out all sorts of odd stuff that didn't 
 RJT> make any sense to me.
That's what I'm trying to avoid; I don't need the work .
 RJT> And if you've got a main menu as I do which consists 
 RJT> of a bunch of colored blocks,  it's *so* much easier 
 RJT> to try and draw it with something like THEDRAW and 
Not applicable; see below .
 RJT> What are you trying to convert?
After 4 years of "no doors or 'noth'n on this system", I broke down and 
became a distributor for someone.  His games are basically giant ansi files 
with input the suck from elsewhere, and, probably, pauses while it waits for 
user input.  I tried, with the board down, to look at it with an ansi viewer, 
which didn't work.
Then, for kicks, I tried converting it to *.bbs files with ansi2bbs.exe .
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