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|    Jeff Earle to Todd Yatzook    |
|    Re: Mystic Clearing Screen During Login     |
|    27 Jan 25 11:46:54    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A48       MSGID: 1:229/700 23029dd8       REPLY: 1:142/799 e4e2779c       TZUTC: -0500       On 27 Jan 2025, Todd Yatzook said the following...                TY> On 26 Jan 2025, Jeff Earle said the following...        TY>         TY> JE> I'm trying to understand something and hope there is a work around.        TY> JE> It seems to me that the login sequence for Mystic is that after the b        TY> JE> detects a logon it displays a PRELOGON.ANS or .ASC. Currently mine is        TY> JE> longer than 50 lines so it gives a Yes No Continous prompt for        TY> JE> displaying the PRELOGON.*. Then when the user chooses y,n or c, Mysti        TY> JE> clears the Screen and displays the preuser.* and then the enter usern        TY> JE> prompt. If I'm wrong on this sequence please let me know.        TY> JE> What I want to know if there is a work around for Mystic not to clear        TY> JE> screen before displaying the preuser.* file? I really don't want to        TY> JE> change the name of the prelogon.* to preuser.*. I kinda like the        TY> JE> sequence but don't want a clear screen.         TY> JE> Any ideas?        TY>         TY> Had a big ol' explainy reply for ya, had to delete the entire thing just        TY> to say this: open your Mystic preuser.ans in a text editor (I'm assuming        TY> you're talking about the default one) and in the top-left of the file        TY> you'll see |
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