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  • Mystic Clearing Screen During Login Sequence

    From Jeff Earle@1:229/700 to All on Sun Jan 26 12:43:02 2025
    I'm trying to understand something and hope there is a work around.
    It seems to me that the login sequence for Mystic is that after the bbs detects a logon it displays a PRELOGON.ANS or .ASC. Currently mine is longer than 50 lines so it gives a Yes No Continous prompt for displaying the PRELOGON.*. Then when the user chooses y,n or c, Mystic clears the Screen and displays the preuser.* and then the enter username prompt. If I'm wrong on this sequence please let me know.
    What I want to know if there is a work around for Mystic not to clear the screen before displaying the preuser.* file? I really don't want to change the name of the prelogon.* to preuser.*. I kinda like the sequence but don't want a clear screen.
    Any ideas?

    Thanks

    ... Documentation: The worst part of programming.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Mystic Realms - A Social Media Alternative (1:229/700)
  • From Todd Yatzook@1:142/799 to Jeff Earle on Mon Jan 27 11:22:34 2025
    On 26 Jan 2025, Jeff Earle said the following...

    I'm trying to understand something and hope there is a work around.
    It seems to me that the login sequence for Mystic is that after the bbs detects a logon it displays a PRELOGON.ANS or .ASC. Currently mine is longer than 50 lines so it gives a Yes No Continous prompt for
    displaying the PRELOGON.*. Then when the user chooses y,n or c, Mystic clears the Screen and displays the preuser.* and then the enter username prompt. If I'm wrong on this sequence please let me know.
    What I want to know if there is a work around for Mystic not to clear the screen before displaying the preuser.* file? I really don't want to
    change the name of the prelogon.* to preuser.*. I kinda like the
    sequence but don't want a clear screen.
    Any ideas?

    Had a big ol' explainy reply for ya, had to delete the entire thing just to say this: open your Mystic preuser.ans in a text editor (I'm assuming you're talking about the default one) and in the top-left of the file you'll see <pipe>16<pipe>CL (real pipe codes, not literally <pipe>). Delete the <pipe>CL part, et voila!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/12 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: http://www.throwbackbbs.com -\- meriden, ct -\- (1:142/799)
  • From Jeff Earle@1:229/700 to Todd Yatzook on Mon Jan 27 11:46:54 2025
    On 27 Jan 2025, Todd Yatzook said the following...

    On 26 Jan 2025, Jeff Earle said the following...

    I'm trying to understand something and hope there is a work around. It seems to me that the login sequence for Mystic is that after the b detects a logon it displays a PRELOGON.ANS or .ASC. Currently mine is longer than 50 lines so it gives a Yes No Continous prompt for displaying the PRELOGON.*. Then when the user chooses y,n or c, Mysti clears the Screen and displays the preuser.* and then the enter usern prompt. If I'm wrong on this sequence please let me know.
    What I want to know if there is a work around for Mystic not to clear screen before displaying the preuser.* file? I really don't want to change the name of the prelogon.* to preuser.*. I kinda like the sequence but don't want a clear screen.
    Any ideas?

    Had a big ol' explainy reply for ya, had to delete the entire thing just to say this: open your Mystic preuser.ans in a text editor (I'm assuming you're talking about the default one) and in the top-left of the file you'll see <pipe>16<pipe>CL (real pipe codes, not literally <pipe>). Delete the <pipe>CL part, et voila!

    Thanks so much. I new it was something simple. Have a great Day!

    ... Enter any 12-digit prime number to continue.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Mystic Realms - A Social Media Alternative (1:229/700)