On Nov 25 20:13 97, Jeff Dubois of 1:163/266 wrote:
 JD> I have a couple more quick Maximus questions which arise 
 JD> from my experience with Opus way back before the earth 
 JD> cooled.
Haa haa :)
 JD> As I recall, Opus used to have an optional *.GBS file which 
 JD> could be displayed to users who were in TTY mode not using 
 JD> ANSI graphics.  For example, if you had a WELCOME.BBS and a 
 JD> WELCOME.GBS in Opus, and the user were TTY, I seem to 
I just stick all the data TTy,Ansi,Rip in the one file, with Mecca tokens to 
show the correct bit of it to the users. I dont have my files here, but I 
think I first do ANSI using the [color] [endcolor] tokens.... (I may be wrong 
:)
Then there are the Rip tokens from the manual
           [rip] and [endrip]
or         [norip] and endrip]
So to show tty         [color] ANSI  goes here [endcolor] [quit]
if not tty check for rip
                       [rip]   Rip screens goes here [endrip] [quit]
else its tty   
                       Tty text goes here    [quit]
 JD> The second question, also related to an old Opus feature, 
 JD> was the ability to display a file, which if memory serves 
 JD> me right was called AREAINFO.BBS or something like that, to
 JD>  users who were entering a specific file area or message 
There is a rules file for msg areas. Called rules.bbs
Greg
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