CSI 0 ; 6 8 ; "DIR" ; 13 p - This re-assigns the key F10 to send to the keyboard buffer the string "DIR" and ENTER, which in the DOS command line would display the contents of the current directory. (MS-DOS ANSI.SYS only) CSI 2 J - This clears the screen and locates the cursor to the y,x position 0,0 (upper left corner). CSI 32 m - This makes text green. Normally the green would be dark, dull green, so you may wish to enable Bold with the code CSI 1 m which would make it bright green. This ca ...

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ANSI escape code, ANSI escape code - Examples

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A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. During their heyday (from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s), many BBSes were run as a hobby free of charge by the "SysOp" (system operator), while other BBSes charged their users a subscription fee for access. In current usage (primarily in Japan and China) the term BBS may be used to ref ...

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• Bulletin board system - History
• Bulletin board system - Shareware
• Bulletin board system - Features
• Bulletin board system - BBSes
• Bulletin board system - Related terms
• Bulletin board system - BBS programs
• Bulletin board system - Other

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The advent of the curses library with Berkeley Unix created a portable and stable API for which to write TUIs. The ability to talk to various terminal types using the same interfaces led to more widespread use of "visual" Unix programs, which occupied the entire terminal screen instead of using a simple line interface. This can be seen in text editors like vi, mail clients like pine, and web browsers like lynx or w3m. In addition, the rise in popularity of Linux brought many former MS-DOS users to a Unix-like platform, which has fostered an MS-DOS influence in many TUIs. The program minic ...

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Text user interface, Text user interface - TUI under MS-DOS, Text user interface - TUI under Win32, Text user interface - TUI under Unix-like systems

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The first BBS, CBBS, went online on February 16, 1978 in Chicago, Illinois. The first BBS in the UK was in Hull, East Yorkshire, it opened in 1980 and was called Forum 80. With the original 110 and 300 baud modems of the early 1980s, BBSes were painfully slow, but speed became acceptable with the introduction of 1200 bit/s modems in and around 1985, and this led to a substantial increase in popularity. The lack of autodial and autoanswer capabilities in many 110-300 bit/s modems was also an obsta ...

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Bulletin board system, Bulletin board system - History, Bulletin board system - Shareware, Bulletin board system - Features, Bulletin board system - BBSes, Bulletin board system - Related terms, Bulletin board system - BBS programs, Bulletin board system - Other

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The first BBS, CBBS, went online on February 16, 1978 in Chicago, Illinois. With the original 110 and 300 baud modems of the early 1980s, BBSes were painfully slow, but speed became acceptable with the introduction of 1200 bit/s modems in and around 1985, and this led to a substantial increase in popularity. The lack of autodial and autoanswer capabilities in many 110-300 bit/s modems was also an obsta ...

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Bulletin board system, Bulletin board system - History, Bulletin board system - Shareware, Bulletin board system - Features, Bulletin board system - BBSes, Bulletin board system - Related terms, Bulletin board system - BBS programs, Bulletin board system - Other

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Much of the "Shareware" movement was started via sharing software through BBSes. A notable example was Phil Katz's PKARC (and later PKZIP, using the same ".zip" algorithm that WinZip and other popular archivers now use); also Wolfenstein 3D and Doom from id Software and many Apogee games. See also: ANSI escape code, BBS door, Fido and Fidonet, Internet forum, ISCABBS, and Ward Christensen ...

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Bulletin board system, Bulletin board system - History, Bulletin board system - Shareware, Bulletin board system - Features, Bulletin board system - BBSes, Bulletin board system - Related terms, Bulletin board system - BBS programs, Bulletin board system - Other

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Much of the "Shareware" movement was started via sharing software through BBSes. A notable example was Phil Katz's PKARC (and later PKZIP, using the same ".zip" algorithm that WinZip and other popular archivers now use); also Wolfenstein 3D and Doom from id Software and many Apogee games. See also: ANSI escape code, BBS door, Fido and FidoNet, Internet forum, ISCABBS, and Ward Christensen ...

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Bulletin board system, Bulletin board system - History, Bulletin board system - Shareware, Bulletin board system - Features, Bulletin board system - BBSes, Bulletin board system - Related terms, Bulletin board system - BBS programs, Bulletin board system - Other

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A typical BBS has: A computer One or more modems One or more phone lines A BBS software package A sysop - system operator Some BBSes allow telnet access over the Internet using a telnet server and a virtual FOSSIL driver: COM/IP (Windows) GameSrv/NetFOSS (Windows) [popular] NetModem (Windows) SIO/VMODEM (OS/2) Synchronet bbs [Windows, Linux, OS/ ...

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Bulletin board system, Bulletin board system - History, Bulletin board system - Shareware, Bulletin board system - Features, Bulletin board system - BBSes, Bulletin board system - Related terms, Bulletin board system - BBS programs, Bulletin board system - Other

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