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to: xbit
from: Digital Man
date: 2021-03-25 11:33:00
subject: \SBBS\TEXT\MENU\XTRN

  Re: \SBBS\TEXT\MENU\XTRN
  By: xbit to All on Thu Mar 25 2021 04:19 am

 > 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.

You would need a .asc or .msg variant of the menu file for *any* variant (e.g. .ans) to be displayed.

 > Anyone else using this feature and if so can you reproduce the issue or is
 > it just me?

Try with a .msg or .asc file in place.
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