Subj : Re: File Group ?:Info file?
To   : paulie420
From : Black Panther
Date : Sun Nov 08 2020 15:26:52

On 06 Nov 2020, 09:50p, paulie420 said the following...
 
 pa> I'm adding file groups for CD-ROMs I have from back in the day.
 pa> I want to display a file, either an ANSI or a README.TXT when the user
 pa> joinsthe file group...

Easy enough...

 pa> I notice that right in the file group editor, there is an INFO FILE
 pa> entry...but I add a filename, and nothing displays. The Mystic wiki is
 pa> outdated here,and doesn't show an entry for INFO FILE at all...

I never even noticed that field... :) It must be relatively new...

 pa> Am I missing like.. the whole path? Is the file group info file NOT
 pa> displayedor displayed somewhere else? 

If you're looking for an ansi file to show up on the screen when someone changes to a specific file group, just create the ansi file, put it in your themes text file directory, and name it 'fgroup#.ans', where '#' is the file group ID number from mystic -cfg. 

For example, here on CRBBS, I have some ansi files set up like that. If you change to the fsxNet file group, which is ID 6 here, Mystic will display 'fgroup6.ans'.

The same works with the message groups, although the file names are 'group#.ans', where the '#' is the message group ID number.

 pa> One last thing... I might possibly want to run the door apps that come
 pa> withsome of these old CD-Roms. They are DOS based doors, so... I run a
 pa> Raspberry Piand know door games are touchy on this hardware. I've heard

Can't really help you with that one. I do know that some people have used dosbox, with varying success. I haven't tried dosemu2 yet, so I can't speak to it.

I do plan on getting the RPi3 running again, and maybe doing some shifting of servers around.


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