Subj : Re: Editing ANSIMRD.ANS
To   : Todd Holcomb
From : g00r00
Date : Wed Dec 09 2020 23:38:07

 TH> What about the !1, !2, etc in those files.  Should those be replaced
 TH> with &1 and &2?

In that file the !1 and !2 determine where the "view" of the message text starts and ends (!1 being the first line and !2 being the last line).  So what I would recommend doing is just opening the ANS file in a text editor and using those [X and [Y codes to place the !1 and !2.  This is what the default ansimrd.ans does and you can open that up in a text editor to use as a reference.

This format is left over from back in the DOS days and back then we used TheDraw which could do that for you.  Now its a bigger pain than it was back then, so I have been moving over to using .ini files.  I haven't converted the ANSIMRD over to the .ini format yet but I do still plan to.  It'll be much easier to work with then.

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