Subj : Re: Message Header
To   : Irish_Monk
From : paulie420
Date : Sun Oct 02 2022 09:12 am

 Ir> Whats the secret recipe of getting an ansi in place of the message
 Ir> header that comes with Mystic BBS?

:P Its a doozy; theres two ways to do it. First, you can use TheDraw in DOSBox and load up the ANSI you wanna use. THEN, you turn on animation mode and meticulously add your needed !XX codes in the areas needed. This can get tedious, because you have to add the !XX codes that set the allowed characters so a user name/message area name doesn't overwrite any ANSI that it shouldn't...

The second, more proper, way is to use the Mystic !XX codes in the correct way. If you pull up the Mystic wiki on display codes, you'll see that there are display codes that allow you to do much more than just display like.. !UN, or whatever.

I *believe* I have examples of both ways and I don't mind sharing my files for you to see... maybe some other sysops will share, too - I know that The Godfather, from The Underground bbS was trying to show me the 'correct' way, but he was hacking it together, too. :P 



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