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echo: synchronet
to: xbit
from: Nelgin
date: 2021-03-25 11:43:00
subject: Re: \SBBS\TEXT\MENU\XTRN

xbit wrote:
> A feature does not seem to be working that was added some time ago. It used 
> this dir in the subject to display a message before a door loaded. This would 
> allow sysops to give special instructions if spicific door needed it for
> whatever reason.
> 
> For it to work you would name a file in \sbbs\text\menu\xtrn the same as 
> a doors internal code and sync would display it when the door was accessed. 
> For example if you had a door with the internal code of lordt and you had a 
> lordt.ans in the \sbbs\text\menu\xtrn dir it would display when a user 
> accessed LORD Tournament.
> 
> Anyone else using this feature and if so can you reproduce the issue or is it 
> just me?

I just created /sbbs/text/menu/xtrn/FORECAST.asc and it worked fine.

It did not workw ith FORECAST.ans

I did notice that the text in the FORECAST.asc was printed twice, however.
This is maybe a bug that needs looking into.

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