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    From Plt@VERT/MB to All on Sat Dec 8 19:27:42 2018
    I am getting this warning message while I am reading messages.

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    â–’ Subj: Lost messages
    â–’ To : All
    â–’ From: Digital Man (VERT)
    â–’ Date: Mon Apr 30 2018 17:48:00 UTC (7.4 months ago) â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â –’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â– ’â–’
    Attempt to draw outside of screen: 78x30 > 80x26

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  • From echicken@VERT/ECBBS to Plt on Sat Dec 8 20:11:17 2018
    Re: Strange warning message
    By: Plt to All on Sat Dec 08 2018 19:27:42

    I am getting this warning message while I am reading messages.

    â–’â– ’â–’ Attempt to draw outside of screen: 78x30 > 80x26

    It's likely related to displaying the sender's avatar. Not sure what the best way to fix it will be.

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  • From Plt@VERT/MB to echicken on Sun Dec 9 12:59:49 2018
    Re: Strange warning message
    By: echicken to Plt on Sat Dec 08 2018 20:11:17

    Re: Strange warning message
    By: Plt to All on Sat Dec 08 2018 19:27:42

    I am getting this warning message while I am reading messages.

    â–’â– ’â–’ Attempt to draw outside of screen: 78x30 > 80x26

    It's likely related to displaying the sender's avatar. Not sure what the best way to fix it will be.


    I tried several different clients including putty and telnet that comes with Windows 10 and I am having
    the same issue.

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  • From echicken@VERT/ECBBS to Plt on Sun Dec 9 14:55:52 2018
    Re: Strange warning message
    By: Plt to echicken on Sun Dec 09 2018 12:59:49

    I tried several different clients including putty and telnet that comes with Windows 10 and I am having the same issue.

    Do you see this warning when reading all messages, some messages, only after you've viewed one message, or any other pattern that you've noticed?

    Do you have a text/msghdr.asc file on your system? If so, have you modified it?

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Plt on Sun Dec 9 18:13:28 2018
    Re: Strange warning message
    By: Plt to echicken on Sun Dec 09 2018 12:59 pm

    I tried several different clients including putty and telnet that comes with Windows 10 and I am having the same issue.

    PuTTY and the Windows Telnet client are not the best for BBSes. I'm not sure they can properly render ANSI, at least not without some additional configuration.

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Plt on Mon Dec 10 13:21:51 2018
    Re: Strange warning message
    By: Plt to echicken on Sun Dec 09 2018 12:59 pm

    Re: Strange warning message
    By: echicken to Plt on Sat Dec 08 2018 20:11:17

    Re: Strange warning message
    By: Plt to All on Sat Dec 08 2018 19:27:42

    I am getting this warning message while I am reading messages.

    â–’â– ’â–’ Attempt to draw outside of screen: 78x30 > 80x26

    It's likely related to displaying the sender's avatar. Not sure what the best way to fix it will be.


    I tried several different clients including putty and telnet that comes with Windows 10 and I am having
    the same issue.

    Try making your window size bigger? Is your terminal screen width 80+ columns? Or there's a problem with the avatar it's trying to display. Do you get the error with other message authors' avatars?

    digital man

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT to NIGHTFOX on Mon Dec 17 13:01:00 2018
    PuTTY and the Windows Telnet client are not the best for BBSes. I'm not sure N>they can properly render ANSI, at least not without some additional N>configuration.

    I think SyncTerm is the very best...you see any animation, and for
    SBBS Sysops, it automatically enters their Sysop password at logon.
    Plus, the time on QWK packets, etc. is correct -- the MTel program does
    it in UTC instead.

    Daryl
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