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  • Synchronet with Digital Distortion Logon Matrix plugin

    From Winzlo@1:154/140 to All on Wed Apr 29 15:07:14 2026
    I ran through the directions to get this installed, similar to the other DD plugins, and I have noticed that before the matrix window clears the screen, the
    answer.msg file is being read in and displaying the old-style login prompt and procedure. It was my impression that the answer file would only be displayed if the user's terminal did not support ANSI.

    Has anyone else encountered this, or watched the screen close enough to notice the flicker from their answer file's banner*.msg screens to the matrix screen? Had this been a dial-up connection, the user would have felt like they were
    getting 2 sets of instructions to log in with.
    For a low vision user like myself, I have to pay attention to everything, no matter how insignificant. My screen reader also does not discriminate on what it reds, so each time I log in via telnet and get the matrix login, it reads
    the answer.msg file and displays one of the 4 banner*.msg files.
    I realize this is a 0.01% of people impacted, but I thought I'd ask before I go diving into someone else's code and see if I can pinpoint the ANSI detection process, move that in front of any answer or theme display so it's an either-or
    instead of both.
    Greatly appreciate those of you smart enough to be writing the code for these programs and plugins.

    -Winzlo

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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Winzlo on Wed Apr 29 13:31:45 2026
    Re: Synchronet with Digital Distortion Logon Matrix plugin
    By: Winzlo to All on Wed Apr 29 2026 03:07 pm

    I ran through the directions to get this installed, similar to the other DD plugins, and I have noticed that before the matrix window clears the screen, the
    answer.msg file is being read in and displaying the old-style login prompt and procedure. It was my impression that the answer file would only be displayed if the user's terminal did not support ANSI.

    My answer.msg is empty - I don't remember specifically why, but I highly suspect I made it empty so that nothing would be displayed before my login matrix.

    Nightfox

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