So, I have an ANSi screen I'd like to display just when the user connects,
and before the login screen. Show, pause, and then show login screen after
user presses Enter key. Just like the welcome screen w/ agent picture on
Avon's Agency BBS.

Where, how, does one call this guy out? I tried in prelogin menu, display
file option or something like that, but that 1) doesn't work and 2) that menu seems to be called after user logs in.

Thanks!

[þ] Peconi
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So, I have an ANSi screen I'd like to display just when the user
connects, and before the login screen. Show, pause, and then show login screen after user presses Enter key. Just like the welcome screen w/ Where, how, does one call this guy out? I tried in prelogin menu, display file option or something like that, but that 1) doesn't work and 2) that menu seems to be called after user logs in.
[þ] Peconi

You can go to prompt # 000 the first prompt in your default.txt file
where it says DFpreuser thats the file you want to edit or change.
Make it clear the screen with the CL mci code at the top and put a pause code
PA at the bottom of the screen. Under the PA code put a CL code to clear
screen. Thats just one way to do it. You can name this screen anything you
want. It doesnt have to be preuser.ans in case you want to save the original
screen without over writing it.

²ß±ß° {tHE.pIRATE.kING} ÜßÛßÜ
ß²Ü°ß HOIST THE COLOURS ßÛÜÛß
þþþ NEVER SHALL WE DIE. ÝÝÞ SIMMAH DOWN NAH! heah SIMMAH DOWN NAH!

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On 09/30/16, peconi pondered and said...

agent picture on Avon's Agency BBS.

Where, how, does one call this guy out? I tried in prelogin menu, display

Not surprisingly I know the answer to this one :)

You want the file called PRELOGIN.XXX in your Mystic BBS text directory where XXX is either .ANS or .ASC depending on if the file is saved as ANSI or ASCII

Best, Paul

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On 10/01/16, Avon pondered and said...

You want the file called PRELOGIN.XXX in your Mystic BBS text directory

Whoops, typo - it's called PRELOGON.XXX

Best, Paul

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On 09/30/16, peconi said the following...

Where, how, does one call this guy out? I tried in prelogin menu, display file option or something like that, but that 1) doesn't work and 2) t

prelogon.ans

-=>Richard Miles<=-
-=>Captain Obvious<=-
-=>bbs.shadowscope.com<=-

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On 09/30/16, peconi said the following...

So, I have an ANSi screen I'd like to display just when the user
connects, and before the login screen. Show, pause, and then show login screen after user presses Enter key. Just like the welcome screen w/
agent picture on Avon's Agency BBS.

Where, how, does one call this guy out? I tried in prelogin menu, display file option or something like that, but that 1) doesn't work and 2) that menu seems to be called after user logs in.
Thanks!
[þ] Peconi
º Pattycake Mafia BBS (21:1/172 & 80:937/1)
º telnet://bbs.pattycakemafia.com:2023
º ssh://bbs.pattycakemafia.com:22

The quick way is to just concatenate the files: your_file.ans with a |PA as last line, then preuser.ans (the default ANSI screen). Generally you want to save the original so in Linux from mystic root you'd do:
mv text/preuser.ans text/opreuser.ans
cat text/your_file.ans text/opreuser.ans >text/preuser.ans
Then it should come up, remember it needs |PA (pause) as your_file.ans's last line (to give you the pause between screens). In truth you could create a
file called pause.ans that has nothing but |PA in it and add it to the list: cat text/your_file.ans text/pause.ans text/opreuser.ans >text/preuser.ans
to do the same thing. Quick and dirty way but it will work ;)

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