fizmo-console statusbar behaviour is surprising.

[spacehobo]

When I run the fizmo-console command as packaged in Debian/Ubuntu, the status bar messages appear after the > prompts, separated by a row of spaces.

I'm not sure if this is just a naïve stripping of control codes from the curses version, but it does present unusual challenges for automation. For example, we can't just time out on select() of the program's stdout and make sure it ends in \n> to be sure it's ready for input.

This is fine and easy to prepare for in advance, but a little documentation of exactly what we should be watching for would be helpful. I'd also appreciate an option to have status bar text sent somewhere else, such as stderr, where it could be handled separately.

Just as an example, here's the tail end of a hex dump (eliding repeated lines of spaces) of the output of fizmo-console Tell.z5 from the Inform 6 IBG sample games, where I just started it up and then typed quit\nyes\n:

00000500  53 74 61 79 20 63 6c 6f  73 65 20 74 6f 20 6d 65  |Stay close to me|
00000510  2c 20 73 6f 6e 2c 22 20  79 6f 75 20 73 61 79 2c  |, son," you say,|
00000520  20 22 6f 72 20 79 6f 75  27 6c 6c 20 67 65 74 20  | "or you'll get |
00000530  6c 6f 73 74 20 61 6d 6f  6e 67 20 61 6c 6c 20 74  |lost among all t|
00000540  68 65 73 65 20 70 65 6f  70 6c 65 2e 22 0a 0a 3e  |hese people."..>|
00000550  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
*
000005a0  41 20 73 74 72 65 65 74  20 69 6e 20 41 6c 74 64  |A street in Altd|
000005b0  6f 72 66 53 63 6f 72 65  3a 20 30 4d 6f 76 65 73  |orfScore: 0Moves|
000005c0  3a 20 30 41 72 65 20 79  6f 75 20 73 75 72 65 20  |: 0Are you sure |
000005d0  79 6f 75 20 77 61 6e 74  20 74 6f 20 71 75 69 74  |you want to quit|
000005e0  3f 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |?               |
000005f0  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
*
00000630  20 20 41 20 73 74 72 65  65 74 20 69 6e 20 41 6c  |  A street in Al|
00000640  74 64 6f 72 66 53 63 6f  72 65 3a 20 30 4d 6f 76  |tdorfScore: 0Mov|
00000650  65 73 3a 20 30                                    |es: 0|
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