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   Paul Hayton to g00r00   
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   23 Oct 21 21:21:18   
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47   
   MSGID: 3:770/100 8bb3c587   
   TZUTC: 1300   
   I moved Agency to Linux and can't seem to get some things working. Wondering   
   if I have missed something?   
      
   FLAG1x   
      
   I have a user account with Flag 1A set. There's a file called FLAG1A.ANS that   
   displays on the old A46 win32 instance of the BBS  when the user logs in.   
      
   But on the new Linux box (running the version in my tear line below) the only   
   thing I have changed is the display file to lowercase (as per wiki notes) so   
   it's now called  flag1a.ans but the file no longer displays when the user logs   
   on. Did I miss something?   
      
   ANSICHAT.XXX   
      
   I miss the options that display on a terminal window when a user if active in   
   Windows. It seems Nodespy is my only option for some things I used to be able   
   to do with the Windows terminal.   
      
   Using the Window terminal in the A46 win32 version I could call Alt-S to   
   engage a split screen chat and a lower case ansichat.ANS would display.   
      
   Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no equivalent option in Linux.. and I   
   need to use Nodespy - sound right? :)    
      
   In the Linux version I made the file name ansichat.ans and then went looking   
   as to how to call it.   
      
   When running Nodespy I can run snoop and there after can use  alt-c to chat...   
   but if I want to use the split-screen chat I need to go to the 'user chat'   
   option in Nodespy.   
      
   The problem is it calls the stock split-screen chat ansi background and seems   
   to ignore the ansichat.ans I have. Any ideas why? I probably missed something.   
      
   I also wondered if in 'snoop' you could add the split-screen chat option in so   
   alt-s as well as having alt-c option?   
      
   In the windows terminal there were options to edit the user while online,   
   increase and decrease avail time, toggle the status bar displaying user info   
   on and off, and toggle the info being displayed on the status bar. Do you   
   think you could add the same code to the nodespy module too? I kinda think it   
   would be helpful stuff for a Linux sysop and it's something I've missed since   
   moving to Linux from Windows.   
      
   I'd better stop there :)   
      
   Thanks for any info / thoughts.   
      
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