JS> part of the message menu screen I can't seem to change follows:
 JS> There are 12 messages in this area.  The highest is #12
 JS> NO NEW messages have been posted.
 JS> [12 / 12]  Msg.area 2 ... Public Messages
 JS>            Press  for the NEXT message.
that's actually a mex program. you'll notice that there's a line:
Menu MESSAGE
>  MenuHead  :m\headmsg
or something like that. That's the file it's displaying there. So you can 
edit that, or simply comment it out and make your own in mex/mecca..
ttyl, greg
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