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  • \SBBS\TEXT\MENU\XTRN

    From xbit@VERT/XBITBBS to All on Thursday, March 25, 2021 04:19:51
    A feature does not seem to be working that was added some time ago. It used this dir in the subject to display a message before a door loaded. This would allow sysops to give special instructions if spicific door needed it for whatever reason.

    For it to work you would name a file in \sbbs\text\menu\xtrn the same as
    a doors internal code and sync would display it when the door was accessed. For example if you had a door with the internal code of lordt and you had a lordt.ans in the \sbbs\text\menu\xtrn dir it would display when a user accessed LORD Tournament.

    Anyone else using this feature and if so can you reproduce the issue or is it just me?

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  • From Nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to xbit on Thursday, March 25, 2021 11:43:26
    xbit wrote:
    A feature does not seem to be working that was added some time ago. It used this dir in the subject to display a message before a door loaded. This would
    allow sysops to give special instructions if spicific door needed it for whatever reason.

    For it to work you would name a file in \sbbs\text\menu\xtrn the same as
    a doors internal code and sync would display it when the door was accessed. For example if you had a door with the internal code of lordt and you had a lordt.ans in the \sbbs\text\menu\xtrn dir it would display when a user accessed LORD Tournament.

    Anyone else using this feature and if so can you reproduce the issue or is it
    just me?

    I just created /sbbs/text/menu/xtrn/FORECAST.asc and it worked fine.

    It did not workw ith FORECAST.ans

    I did notice that the text in the FORECAST.asc was printed twice, however.
    This is maybe a bug that needs looking into.

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to xbit on Thursday, March 25, 2021 11:33:06
    Re: \SBBS\TEXT\MENU\XTRN
    By: xbit to All on Thu Mar 25 2021 04:19 am

    A feature does not seem to be working that was added some time ago. It used this dir in the subject to display a message before a door loaded. This would allow sysops to give special instructions if spicific door needed it for whatever reason.

    For it to work you would name a file in \sbbs\text\menu\xtrn the same as
    a doors internal code and sync would display it when the door was accessed. For example if you had a door with the internal code of lordt and you had a lordt.ans in the \sbbs\text\menu\xtrn dir it would display when a user accessed LORD Tournament.

    You would need a .asc or .msg variant of the menu file for *any* variant (e.g. .ans) to be displayed.

    Anyone else using this feature and if so can you reproduce the issue or is it just me?

    Try with a .msg or .asc file in place.
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  • From xbit@VERT/XBITBBS to Nelgin on Thursday, March 25, 2021 10:54:43
    Re: Re: \SBBS\TEXT\MENU\XTRN
    By: Nelgin to xbit on Thu Mar 25 2021 11:43 am

    I just created /sbbs/text/menu/xtrn/FORECAST.asc and it worked fine.
    It did not workw ith FORECAST.ans

    Nice find Nelgin, perhaps that changed from the old sync version that I was using.

    I did notice that the text in the FORECAST.asc was printed twice, however. This is maybe a bug that needs looking into.

    I'll test as well.

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  • From xbit@VERT/XBITBBS to Nelgin on Thursday, March 25, 2021 11:40:50
    Re: Re: \SBBS\TEXT\MENU\XTRN
    By: xbit to Nelgin on Thu Mar 25 2021 10:54 am

    I did notice that the text in the FORECAST.asc was printed twice, however This is maybe a bug that needs looking into.

    I'll test as well.

    Odd, after changing to .asc it worked but i could not reproduce the dupe display of the file in question. I'm on a 32bit win10 OS.

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  • From xbit@VERT/XBITBBS to Digital Man on Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:21:54
    Re: \SBBS\TEXT\MENU\XTRN
    By: Digital Man to xbit on Thu Mar 25 2021 11:33 am

    Try with a .msg or .asc file in place. -- digital man

    Works like a champ. Thanks DM.

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  • From Nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to xbit on Thursday, March 25, 2021 16:20:51
    xbit wrote:
    Re: Re: \SBBS\TEXT\MENU\XTRN
    By: xbit to Nelgin on Thu Mar 25 2021 10:54 am

    I did notice that the text in the FORECAST.asc was printed twice, however
    This is maybe a bug that needs looking into.

    I'll test as well.

    Odd, after changing to .asc it worked but i could not reproduce the dupe display of the file in question. I'm on a 32bit win10 OS.

    That's cool. I'll check it out later when I have more time to do some testing.

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