One of the things I was hoping to do was decrease the size of the message header and footer and increase the amount of readable text on the screen.
Our tradition of 80x24 is something I find slightly oppressive and I was
hoping to ease the pain of that a bit.

After wrestling with ansimrd.ans a bit, I was able to trim the header down to three lines. However, the message body displays and truncates where it
always did.

I cannot see any way of changing of this; but in the event someone knows a workaround for this so I can have the message body start on line 4 and end on line 23, I would appreciate it.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
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One of the things I was hoping to do was decrease the size of the message header and footer and increase the amount of readable text on the
screen. Our tradition of 80x24 is something I find slightly oppressive and I was hoping to ease the pain of that a bit.

After wrestling with ansimrd.ans a bit, I was able to trim the header
down to three lines. However, the message body displays and truncates where it always did.

I cannot see any way of changing of this; but in the event someone knows
a workaround for this so I can have the message body start on line 4 and end on line 23, I would appreciate it.

If you can, look at the stock ansimrd.ans file... you'll notice, I think at the very end of the file, the !!1 and !!2 (first ! is a | of course...). Those are where you tell Mystic to allow message text to live in between.

Now, it gets tricky to explain to you, and thats why I mentioned looking at the STOCK ansimrd.ans files - when I created my custom ANSI message headers [ansimrd.ans], I had to use ANSI animation to like... draw the ANSI i wanted first, and then go back and insert all the !codes afterwards.

I know some people have figured out ways to NOT use ANSI animation to get this done - but its what I had to do. I used THEDRAW and created my custom message header ANSI... then turned on animation mode and drew in all the:

!$R40!MG
!$R40!MB

!!1



!!2

etc etc. I hope this helps a TINY bit... but Mystic will put text in between the !!1 and !!2... I *think* why you might be having problems is the same reason I had to use ANSI animation... and possibly if you used it, you might see results that fix your issue.

Another thing I might be able to do is... edit your ansimrd.ans for you. :P Its hard to explain the ways I work around Mystic stuff - and I'm sure my way isn't the best.... but it works for me.

Lemme know if you need any help at all - I'm sure we could tackle it together and learn a bit along the way. Pls tell me if any of my ramblings helped at all. Lol.



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very end of the file, the !!1 and !!2 (first ! is a | of course...).
Those are where you tell Mystic to allow message text to live in
between.

That was exactly what I needed. I couldn't pick those out from the blizzard
of symbols in that file, but thanks to your help, it's working exactly as it should now.

Appreciate it!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Shipwrecks & Shibboleths [San Francisco, CA - USA] (21:1/227)

very end of the file, the !!1 and !!2 (first ! is a | of course...). Those are where you tell Mystic to allow message text to live in between.

That was exactly what I needed. I couldn't pick those out from the blizzard of symbols in that file, but thanks to your help, it's working exactly as it should now.

Perfect. :P Happy you ironed it out, sorry about all my extra words that you probably didn't need. Finally someone other than MeaTLoTioN gave a good answer! Ha, mL... take that!!!

I'm bad at finding the BBS addressed in the taglines; whats yer BBS addy so I can make a user account; if its open to public and all...



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I'm bad at finding the BBS addressed in the taglines; whats yer BBS addy so I can make a user account; if its open to public and all...

shibboleths.org

It is still a mainly unmodded system; I'm configuring it as I have time, so there's not much of interest here yet, but I'm working on it. Default new
user messages, etc. are still in place, but I should have a bunch of those re-done by the end of the weekend.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Shipwrecks & Shibboleths [San Francisco, CA - USA] (21:1/227)

shibboleths.org

It is still a mainly unmodded system; I'm configuring it as I have time, so there's not much of interest here yet, but I'm working on it.
Default new user messages, etc. are still in place, but I should have a bunch of those re-done by the end of the weekend.

Take yer time; this is a hobby and so long as you have a smile on when yer playing about... thats the point. :P

yip yip - I'll come by when you announce that you have the best BBS in the land! :P Happy yer here and playing with BBSes, DustCouncil...



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