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WHAT DO ALL THOSE WORDS MEAN?
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Here's a quick glossary of some of those more common
terms that you keep running into - but what do they mean?
ANSI GRAPHICS - ANSI Graphics are special control codes that the
BBS can send to your computer, to allow changing of
colors, cursor movement, etc. on your screen. This
allows the BBS to display graphs, charts and simple
drawings, as well as providing a much nicer interface.
Usually, if both the BBS and your terminal program
will support ANSI graphics, you will want to enable
them.
ARJ FILES - ARJ is a file compression format used to archive
multiple files into a single package for uploading and