Hey Rob,

Someone and I wont mention names (cough..AL..cough) got me thinking and so I took a look again at Syncronet last week after not looking at it for a
couple years. I am excited to see the PETSCII support!!!!

So now I am setting up a new Synconet BBS! But my question has to do with the BANNERx.MSG file.

I have two of them, one is Banner1.msg (for the ansi users) and the other one
i made is Banner1.40col.msg for the CG 40column users. How ever both files are alternately displayed for the ANSI users. So I renamed the Banner1.40col.msg to Banner1.40col.seq. The BBS still throws Banner1.40col.seq in the display pool but now with the extension of .seq neither mode will show the file. So I changed the name back to Banner1.40col.msg.

How do I get the Banner1.40col.msg to not show for the ansi users?

Sorry for the long post, just wanted to lay out how I have it setup. ;)

Thanks for ANY HELP!

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Re: banner1.msg CG question..
By: Shane O'Neill to Digital Man on Sun Jul 04 2021 02:04 pm

Hey Rob,

Someone and I wont mention names (cough..AL..cough) got me thinking and so I took a look again at Syncronet last week after not looking at it for a couple years. I am excited to see the PETSCII support!!!!

So now I am setting up a new Synconet BBS! But my question has to do with the BANNERx.MSG file.

I have two of them, one is Banner1.msg (for the ansi users) and the other one
i made is Banner1.40col.msg for the CG 40column users. How ever both files are alternately displayed for the ANSI users. So I renamed the Banner1.40col.msg to Banner1.40col.seq. The BBS still throws Banner1.40col.seq in the display pool but now with the extension of .seq neither mode will show the file. So I changed the name back to Banner1.40col.msg.

How do I get the Banner1.40col.msg to not show for the ansi users?

Sorry for the long post, just wanted to lay out how I have it setup. ;)

If the file contains PETSCII, it should be named .seq (not .msg). The thing that is triggering the display of banner* is the MENU @-code in answer.msg. You could use a separate answer.seq file or answer.40col.msg file which refers to a specific banner (don't use a wildcard) or just include whatever special text you want in that answer file. You don't *have* to use a nested banner file.
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On 05 Jul 2021, Digital Man said the following...

answer.msg. You could use a separate answer.seq file or answer.40col.msg file which refers to a specific banner (don't use a wildcard) or just include whatever special text you want in that answer file. You don't *have* to use a nested banner file. --

Wow that just makes sense and is too easy, I am loving the ease of your software! Thanks for the quick reply too!

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Just wanted to follow up, I did as you suggested:

I created a copy of the answer.msg file then renamed the copy of that file to answer.40col.msg
I renamed my banner1.40col.msg file to cg40.banner1.msg

I then edit that answer.40col.msg and the line where it calls up the @WORDWRAP@@MENU:../cg40.banner*@
I changed it to @WORDWRAP@@MENU:../cg40.banner*@

ANSI port is only pulling up the bannerX.msg files now and the
40column port is only pulling up the 40col.bannerX.msg files.

Its working perfect so far, thanks again!

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