22 Jun 15 20:04, you wrote to Paul Hayton:   
      
    SD> See, I enjoy putting up "holiday" ANSI/ASCII screens.  Now MBSE can do so   
    SD> if someone wants to turn on bulletins, but I wanted something simpler,   
   much   
    SD> like what I did when I ran Maximus/2.  Using Maximus' scripting language,   
   I   
    SD>  programmed in a little script that checked if "holiday.bbs" (Maximus   
    SD> requires all ANSI screens to be converted to bytecode to show correctly)   
    SD> existed, it'd show it.  I put a little line in newuser.c that checks for   
    SD> the existence of "holiday.ans/.asc" and shows it.   
      
   does mbse have the ability to display certain files based on the date?   
      
   eg:   
   01-01.ans     happy new year   
   02-14.ans     valentines day   
   03-17.ans     st. patricks day   
   07-04.ans     4th of july   
   12-**.ans     holiday screen for each day of december   
      
   i've thought about doing something to allow for the selection of a random   
   screen from a set...   
      
   eg:   
   01-01xxx.ans  where xxx is -00 thru -99 or maybe just 000-999 for 1000   
   choices...   
      
   coming up with that many christmas screens would be daunting :)   
      
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