Hi Matt,

02 November 1998, 22:53; Matt Bedynek wrote a message. This requires reply!


 RB>> Argh.... Yeps.... I force ANSI, but you're right.... I don't
 RB>> think there is some token to do this for non-ANSI terminals....
 MB> Well, I don't want to force ansi, because there are some telnet
 MB> callers with slow links, and ansi will slow it down.

yes,m you're right... However the slowest I ever had was 14k4 here.... My
problem was that every screen, MEX prog etc. I write is with ANSI, en for
all these procs a version without ANSI would be required.... That's the
reason...

 RB>> For non-ANSI I think it is..... But why don't use an ANSI-editor,
 RB>> and save the result as an .ASC file?
 MB> Its hard to explain but I was wanting max to auto justify text when
 MB> using mecca.  For example, depending on the variable [user] will
 MB> depend on how far max justifies the text.. here
 MB>             username : [user]               realname : [realname]
 MB>                        xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 MB> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I want username to occupy no more space than i
 MB> allocate it and if its too long, just overwite realname, and I do give
 MB> them plenty of space so that wouldn't be an issue, but what max does
 MB> it will move the realname over depending on the length of the user's
 MB> name.

Hmmmz.... I get it I think... Pretty hard.... The only solution I can think
for now is using MEX, and work with string lengths (ie. 20-Length of
Username spaces). I don't know about another solution, but maybe it might
be there...

 RB>> Hmmz? Bad, bad.... BTW, what version of Maximus area you using??
 MB> 3.01/2

Ah, I'm using 3.01 also :)

Goodbye and see ya later Matt......
Greets from Rene.
e-mail: Rene.Bakker{at}rapmet.iwg.nl

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