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   Message 31,582 of 33,243   
   Deucе to GitLab note in main/sbbs   
   User terminal config includes iCE cOLOUR   
   29 Mar 25 09:01:03   
   
   TZUTC: -0700   
   MSGID: 57641.sync_sys@1:103/705 2c4e3068   
   PID: Synchronet 3.20e-Linux terminal-abstraction/084ea9647 Mar 28 2025 GCC   
   12.2.0   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.24-Linux master/ad9ab307f Mar 18 2025 GCC 12.2.0   
   BBSID: VERT   
   CHRS: UTF-8 4   
   https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/555#note_6943   
      
   So there's a few interrelated issues there...   
      
   1. XBin makes extensive use of the blink attribute.   
   2. ICE mode changes what the blink attribute does.   
   3. Synchronet knows the difference between bright background and blink   
      
   So the Graphic object will set the blink attribute, Synchronet knows the   
   remote doesn't support blink, so it won't be sent, and you see the base   
   characters.   
      
   If the Graphic object is updated to translate BLINK to BG_BRIGHT (now in   
   master), this changes the colour of everything and looks terrible. Most of the   
   xb files have a black background, which is changed to bright black (ie: dark   
   grey).  The Rush logo looks even worse.   
      
   There does appear to be another issue in the font selection, it's not clear if   
   it's a terminal-abstraction issue, a SyncTERM issue, or a correct result of   
   using ICE mode.   
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