While that would work, it requires input from the player. A lot of BBS's (including the one I used to run years ago) can automatically detect if your terminal can support ANSI. I figured out how PCBoard (a popular BBS) did it, and am currently looking into implementing it. It appears that in telnet the process is much more difficult that it was back in the days of a dos program owning a serial port and knowing that the majority of your users were either using Procomm, Telix or Commo and also running on a DOS platform .. There finding ANSI support usually always allowed you to use the IBM Character graphics codes as well. I'm thinking that the entire effort may not be worth doing (which would seem to me to be the reason why I've never seen it on a MUD before).. After all, all one gains is the ability to show an ANSI opening screen instead of an ASCII one.. Big Whoop :-) Though from the mud's I've been around, a lot of people don't figure out they can use color with a mud for a good while after they start.. though that is just my personal observation... However, another option may be possible. Creating a new terminal type that mud clients could report.. In the negotiation of the telnet program it is possible to have the terminal report the terminal types it supports and the server can negotiate to get the ones it prefers first.. Though as Sammy pointed out, this takes time.. Time that might be better spent mudding? :-) --Mallory +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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