Subj : BullsEye path limitations?
To   : Belly
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun May 15 2022 22:58:54

  Re: BullsEye path limitations?
  By: Belly to Digital Man on Fri May 13 2022 10:50 pm

 >   Re: BullsEye path limitations?
 >   By: Digital Man to Belly on Fri May 13 2022 11:45 am
 >
 >  > BullsEye just calls typeasc.js to display ASCII and ANSI. And typeasc.js
 >  > jus
 >
 > Okay... Incoming weirdness!
 >
 > I tried ;exec ?typeasc.js ../xtrn/tw2002tw.ans ... nothing. Right back to
 > the menu.
 >
 > But: ;exec ?typeasc.js ../xtrn/tw2002tw.txt  ... my "control" test, works
 > fine.
 >
 > I promise that the first file, with the .ans extension, DOES exist in that
 > location.
 >
 > As an experiment, I pulled in the entire sbbs/exec tree from Git, just to
 > make sure nothing's corrupt. The strange behavior persists.
 >
 > Wondering now if I should just save some things, blow the whole thing away,
 > and rebuild. This install dates from 2004.

No, I would not recomend doing that.

Did you experiment with directly executing console.printfile() via the ;eval sysop command?
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