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    From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Thursday, July 12, 2018 09:19:46
    Hi DM - I was just curious if AVATAR terminal support is supported in Synchronet (and possibly SyncTerm). In the 90s, I had heard of AVATAR as an alternative to ANSI that was able to draw faster (due to shorter control codes). I know of at least one terminal program that supported AVATAR (Telemate, I believe), and I noticed menus drew a bit faster with AVATAR vs. ANSI. But these days, the speed advantage probably wouldn't make much difference with people connecting via telnet on broadband internet..

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Thursday, July 12, 2018 15:12:29
    Re: AVATAR terminal support in Synchronet
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Jul 12 2018 09:19 am

    Hi DM - I was just curious if AVATAR terminal support is supported in Synchronet (and possibly SyncTerm).

    Nope. I've reviewed AVATAR every once in a while (I think there's 2 versions?) - anyway, no motivation to use/support it for me.


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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Nightfox on Friday, July 13, 2018 17:07:00
    On 07-12-18 09:19, Nightfox wrote to Digital Man <=-

    Hi DM - I was just curious if AVATAR terminal support is supported in Synchronet (and possibly SyncTerm). In the 90s, I had heard of AVATAR
    as an alternative to ANSI that was able to draw faster (due to shorter control codes). I know of at least one terminal program that supported AVATAR (Telemate, I believe), and I noticed menus drew a bit faster
    with AVATAR vs. ANSI. But these days, the speed advantage probably wouldn't make much difference with people connecting via telnet on broadband internet..

    Now there's a memory, I had forgotten about AVATAR, but it did work well. Yeah, think other things are going to slow me down more, it's a low latency 100Mbps acroaa the LAN to the BBS for me now. :)


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