Subj : Display Files
To   : g00r00
From : Paul Hayton
Date : Sat Oct 23 2021 09:21 pm

I moved Agency to Linux and can't seem to get some things working. Wondering if I have missed something?

FLAG1x

I have a user account with Flag 1A set. There's a file called FLAG1A.ANS that displays on the old A46 win32 instance of the BBS  when the user logs in.

But on the new Linux box (running the version in my tear line below) the only thing I have changed is the display file to lowercase (as per wiki notes) so it's now called  flag1a.ans but the file no longer displays when the user logs on. Did I miss something?

ANSICHAT.XXX

I miss the options that display on a terminal window when a user if active in Windows. It seems Nodespy is my only option for some things I used to be able to do with the Windows terminal.

Using the Window terminal in the A46 win32 version I could call Alt-S to engage a split screen chat and a lower case ansichat.ANS would display.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no equivalent option in Linux.. and I need to use Nodespy - sound right? :) 

In the Linux version I made the file name ansichat.ans and then went looking as to how to call it.

When running Nodespy I can run snoop and there after can use  alt-c to chat... but if I want to use the split-screen chat I need to go to the 'user chat' option in Nodespy.

The problem is it calls the stock split-screen chat ansi background and seems to ignore the ansichat.ans I have. Any ideas why? I probably missed something.

I also wondered if in 'snoop' you could add the split-screen chat option in so alt-s as well as having alt-c option?

In the windows terminal there were options to edit the user while online, increase and decrease avail time, toggle the status bar displaying user info on and off, and toggle the info being displayed on the status bar. Do you think you could add the same code to the nodespy module too? I kinda think it would be helpful stuff for a Linux sysop and it's something I've missed since moving to Linux from Windows.

I'd better stop there :)

Thanks for any info / thoughts.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/09/29 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (3:770/100)

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