Subj : Editing menus, headers and prompts.
To   : tassiebob
From : David Gonzalez
Date : Sun Oct 27 2024 10:15 pm


   Hello tassiebob!

27 Oct 24 10:29, you wrote to me:

 DG>> I'm restring my BBS journey with Mystic which I've found to be
 DG>> complete and easy to use *except* for the afct that whenever I
 DG>> use the built-in ANSI editor and specifically I change (translate
 DG>> into panish) the ansimhdr, it gets screwed, my edits show buy the
 DG>> variables showing From/to/subj all of the msg details vanish,
 DG>> even if I use OVR on the editor and nothing else, they just
 DG>> dissapear.

 ta> That sounds like the ANSI editor is somehow losing, or corrupting, the
 ta> display codes that cause Mystic to display that information.  Strikes
 ta> me as a bit odd that Mystic's own ANSI editor would do that (you'd
 ta> think if anything was going to work, it would).

Those were my exact same thoughts, if Mystic's editor cannot do it, nothing can, and as all you know it's hard to mess somethuing up and then try toi get it back thw way it was so I play safe and *always* make copies of folders I want to edit.

 DG>> Does anyone kno of a working of of editing ANSI screens/headers
 DG>> and not messing the up in the process?. I mean if te Mystic
 DG>> built-in editor screws them, what else can I use?.

 ta> I"ve just been using vi myself - but then I've only been doing small
 ta> tweaks.  If/when I do more substantial things then I'll use an ANSI
 ta> editor.  I've installed icy_draw to play with - just haven't had any
 ta> playing time, so can't vouch for how well it works.

 ta> --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
 ta>  * Origin: TassieBob BBS, Hobart, Tasmania (21:3/169)

David


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