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Accurate ANSI Emulation in Mac OS X?
bedouin writes "I occasionally telnet to some BBSs that are very rich in ANSI graphics. While I can usually navigate fine through message areas and file boards, playing classic door games like Food Fight is almost unbearable. For about a year I've been searching for a Mac OS X terminal emulator that can accurately draw ANSI graphics just as they would appear on DOS systems with ansi.sys, but haven't found anything yet. Any suggestions? A native (and free or shareware) Mac OS X app would be prefered, but I'm willing to use an X11 or maybe even classic alternative as well. So far I've experimented with iTerm, GLterm, and aterm with unimpressive results."
Load BitchX or irssi
I had to google those to even find out what they are. Turns out they're pitifully obsolete and user-hostile chat programs. Anybody who wants to use one of them should use Snak instead. Problem solved.
Umm, ya, if you had to google bitchx or irssi, then you wouldn't understand.
(Actually, anybody who wants to use one of them should take a long, hard look into his soul and ask himself why he wants to use this "IRC" thing at all. But that's a whole 'nother discussion.)
Otay, how about #anything_other_than_porn_or_warez.
BitchX and irssi both support something that I've used for almost a decade and that is detaching the session and reconnecting from another host. This is but one of the features that Snak doesn't support.
You might call these programs obsolete, but seeing as how the IRC protocol has remain more or less unchanged for a really long time, I fail to see how Snak innovates. The only feature Snak brings to the table is that it has a GUI. Whoop-de-shit.