Guus Goos wrote in a message to All:
 GG> I've drawn my ANSI screens, compiled them. Went fine.
Did you go directly from ansi -> bbs with the ANS2BBS utility or did you go 
to a mecca file as an intermediate step?  I always did the latter,  and 
edited the mecca file to suit.
 GG> But how can I get in the files-menu and in the messages menu 
 GG> the actual area on a specific line? Say on line 4 of the 
 GG> screen.
There's a mecca locate token.  One thing to watch out for with this,  though, 
is how it's going to look to callers that don't have ansi enabled.  I had to 
do some fiddling with some of my stuff to make this work properly.
 GG> How can I get some other information, f.i. the actual time,
 GG> in my own ANSI screens on a specific place there?
Again,  look at mecca tokens.
 GG> And, last, but not least...:-)
 GG> My fileareas and messageareas are ordered in groups. What 
 GG> command-string do I have to use to let my users first choose a 
 GG> group? I mean an option with an own hotkey. A second hotkey 
 GG> should be used to select an area within the choosen group.
 GG> Please don't tell me, I have to write my own MEX. I'm not a 
 GG> programmer and do not understand Maximus' own programming 
 GG> language. 
I don't know about this groups stuff as it's been implemented in Max 3.0 and 
later.  I came up with something that worked for me,  adapted out of this 
echo for my setup,  and have been using it ever since I was running 2.01wb.
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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