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@MSGID: 1:142/799 e4e2779c
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@TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A49
@TZUTC: -0500
On 26 Jan 2025, Jeff Earle said the following...
JE> I`m trying to understand something and hope there is a work around.
JE> It seems to me that the login sequence for Mystic is that after the bbs
JE> detects a logon it displays a PRELOGON.ANS or .ASC. Currently mine is
JE> longer than 50 lines so it gives a Yes No Continous prompt for
JE> displaying the PRELOGON.*. Then when the user chooses y,n or c, Mystic
JE> clears the Screen and displays the preuser.* and then the enter username
JE> prompt. If I`m wrong on this sequence please let me know.
JE> What I want to know if there is a work around for Mystic not to clear the
JE> screen before displaying the preuser.* file? I really don`t want to
JE> change the name of the prelogon.* to preuser.*. I kinda like the
JE> sequence but don`t want a clear screen.
JE> Any ideas?
Had a big ol` explainy reply for ya, had to delete the entire
thing just to say this: open your Mystic preuser.ans in a text editor
(I`m assuming you`re talking about the default one) and in the top-left
of the file you`ll see
16CL (real pipe codes, not literally
). Delete the CL part, et voila!
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