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 t
he flicker from their answer file's banner*.msg screens to the matrix screen? Ha
d 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 mat
ter how insignificant. My screen reader also does not discriminate on what it r
eds, 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 pro
cess, 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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