Subj : Re: bbs email replys
To   : g00r00
From : Paul Hayton
Date : Fri May 06 2022 02:46 pm

On 01 May 2022 at 11:36p, g00r00 pondered and said...

g0>  PH> Could a text file(s) be allowed for that could be selected as a reply
g0>  PH> from the internal editor? This may suit a range of options spanning
g0>
g0> What you can do if you are logged in locally is /U which will allow you
g0> to type in a text file to load into the editor so you can load it that
g0> way.  If you create 'newuser.txt' in your root Mystic directory you can
g0> /U and type "newuser.txt" to get that into the editor.

Yep thanks, I'd thought of that also but I guess I was being lazy and wonder if there could be a menu option when you invoke / from the editor :)

g0> I am trying to think of how we can expand on that though, maybe a
g0> SysOp-only function that could load a .txt file from anywhere so that
g0> you wouldn't have to type the name.

could be the go, not sure.

I'm showing my ignorance but could the windows console area in config and the marco options for F1 etc. be used for this. I've never really understood that section of the config and if it applies to all versions of Mystic (windows vs linux) ?

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