[KwartzLab] KWARTZBBS is now online!

[Rob Adlers]

Has anyone tried using the non-colour settings yet when logging in?


Cheers,

Rob
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-----Original Message-----
From: doug moen <doug at moens.org>
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:23:48 
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Subject: Re: [KwartzLab] KWARTZBBS is now online!

The colours are totally unreadable in xterm, if you use the default
black text on a white background.  White characters on a white
background is not good.

However, I changed my xterm theme to use white text on a black
background, and now the BBS is useable (or, I should say, readable).

Doug.

On 25 January 2012 06:52, Chris Frey <cdfrey at foursquare.net> wrote:
> The cool factor is nice, but unfortunately it is unusable for me,
> since I can't seem to turn off the ANSI / ASCII colours.  I need
> a pure text mode, or colours that are readable.
>
> If I have to cut and paste the text into a vi terminal just to read it,
> that's not quite user-friendly. :-)
>
> Nice idea, though. :-)
>
> - Chris
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 04:38:49AM +0000, Rob Adlers wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> Just thought I'd share with everyone that we now have a BBS for the lab!
>>
>> Retro for sure, but we'll be building up capabilities for it including some online games.
>>
>> Login using telnet: 64.235.109.172
>>
>> Ben recommends MTelnet as a telnet client. With Windows XP, you can also use telnet.exe at the DOS prompt.
>>
>> Check out the message areas and leave one!
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Rob
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rob
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