Subj : Ideas on sending out daily ANSIs
To   : Adept
From : Al
Date : Fri Aug 07 2020 23:05:36

Hello Adept,

 Ad> Just to check before I bother to write things, but do people have a
 Ad> good way for automatically adding something to their ANSIs that are
 Ad> posted with automation? Or general thoughts on posting generated
 Ad> ANSIs?

You could use cat or something similar to combine your input files into a single file to import.

 Ad> I was thinking that I could post my calendar ANSIs as a BBS ad, adding
 Ad> a line at top and/or bottom with "telnet.stormbbs.com" or something,
 Ad> and figured I'd do a Mystic Python script to do that, call my calendar
 Ad> script to get the correct ANSI, and write out that line and the ANSI
 Ad> to calendar.ans (or something), and use mutil to post that output.

Mystic does some kind of magic when you import an ansi into a message when you are online. It uses some kind of block mode (not sure that's the correct term) when it saves the message so lines are not longer that 79 or 80 characters.

That doesn't happen with mutil. Lines longer than 79 or 80 characters will be truncated at that point. So be sure that your input file is formatted within those limits and you should have no problem.

I have never tried it but I wonder if the ansi editor in ./mystic -cfg will save an ansi in that format.

 Ad> But I know people have done this sort of thing before, and wondered if
 Ad> anyone had any better ideas.

Not me. I have no ansi art ability. I can appreciate but not create ansi art. I think that thedraw (and possibly other editors) can save an ansi in this format but I'm not sure since I don't have any ansi files so it's off my radar.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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