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     Re: New Abstraction Layer   
     By: deon to Digital Man on Sun Sep 28 2025 09:26 am   
      
    > Hey Rob,   
    >   
    > I've been out of the scene for a while (busy on life), but at some time a   
    > few months ago, I updated Sync to 3.21 - which if I recall from the chatter   
    > that it has a new output layer (aka abstraction layer)?   
      
   Deuce rewrote the terminal emulation code, abstracting it to support more   
   terminal types.   
      
    > (I'm thinking that the problem below is related to that, because I worked on   
    > my viewdata.js for a year or more, but I did upgrade from 3.19 a few months   
    > ago.)   
      
   Unfortunately, Deuce doesn't read DOVE-Net, but you can reach him usually   
   (recently) in #synchronet at irc.synchro.net.   
      
    > Today, I connected to my viewdata port (port 516) to see how its working,   
    > and I've noticed that the page is completly messed up - I think because of   
    > two reasons.   
    >   
    > (In my viewdata processing, I've been using write_raw() to send data to the   
    > terminal. I'm assuming this will sent data as is to the terminal?)   
      
   Yes, but write_raw() also performs Telnet escaping when appropriate.   
      
    > 1) There is extra output sent to the screen with the page data (looks like   
    > 13 x spaces 0x20). This normally wouldnt be an issue, because a HOME command   
    > would get me to the top left corner and I would overwrite it anyway.   
    >   
    > (At some point I'd like to figure out this extra data and surpress it.)   
      
   Deuce changed js_write_raw() to call some new high level "term_out" function   
   rather than "putcom" as it used to. I'll commit a change back to the old   
   behavior but Deuce might object for some reason. Please test it out and see if   
   that fixes the issue you're having.   
      
    > 2) It seems my 0x1e is not being sent (viewdata home).   
      
   Let me know if that recent commit fixes this issue too.   
      
    > So could this be a cause of the new abstraction layer work?   
      
   Yes.   
      
    > Is write_raw() the right method to bypass any internal processing and send   
    > binary data to the terminal?   
      
   Yes.   
   https://wiki.synchro.net/custom:javascript#output   
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