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echo: maximus
to: JUAN ENRIQUE GOMEZ
from: GREG MACLELLAN
date: 1997-04-18 15:54:00
subject: MEC editor

 GM> If you want to make up a screen and be able to understand it and not
 GM> worry about mecca codes, use an ansi editor like TheDraw or ACiDDraw
 GM> etc and then run ANS2MEC.EXE or ANS2BBS.EXE on the ansi file.
 JEG> Thanks, but i can't insert MECCA codes into the ansi, can i?
yes, but you'll notice if you use ANS2BBS (or ANS2MEC, then MECCA) that when 
you view it with oracle it will say "[remain]" (or whatever the code is) on 
the screen. ANS2MEC (and ANS2BBS) put two square brackets when there's one in 
the ansi. (they have to be 'escaped'..) 
So what you do is run ANS2MEC, then edit the new mecca with a text editor, 
and remove one of the "["'s.. then compile with MECCA.
ttyl, greg
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