From: TURTLE              
To: KNIGHT OWL          
Subject: protocols      
Date & Time: 02/22/91 20:51:10
Message Number 12499

ANSI is a cursor-positioning standard (baserd on the DEC VT-102
terminal standard) that has nothing to do with graphics. A lot of
people confuse ANSI cursor positioning with IBM graphics characters
and if you want one you get both. A terminal which emulates ANSI
(like mine) still will not be able to produce IBM graphics characters
unless your computer has an IBM character generator or a software driver
of some sort. Your best bet is just to leave it turned off, since
ANSI is as slow as frozen molasses in zero gee anyway. There are BBS
packages (Telegard comes to mind) that let you switch ANSI and
IBM Graphics on and off independantly, but most BBSes don't (I suspect
because most IBM programmers don't know that ANSI and IBM graphics are
not the same thing).