Hello Michael.

Saturday October 31 1998 15:08, Michael Epler wrote to Matt Bedynek:

 ME> The way it works makes perfect sense given the length of the total
 ME> characters that can be used in each item.  MAX doesn't know if my name
 ME> is short or long, it just displays the max field legth.  Since Ben
 ME> Smith is a lot shorter than Alexander Washington-Smith it will have to
 ME> move the second item on the line.

One software which was pretty versatile, but now antique, RBBS allowed you
the opinion of having it justified or do what max does.  This would be a
good option to add :)

 ME> So, can you live with ONE item on four lines instead of two on two?
 ME> Then you would not need the cursor location tokens.

Don't get me wrong.  I like max, but small things like these make it
difficult to mod!  And trust me, I like to mod my BBS.  I want it to be
different.

 ME> Actually it is indeed quite powerful..... you can do all sorts of
 ME> things. Got a ramdisk active? Then you can do as the earlier person
 ME> suggested with no real disk write or speed loss........

Later,

   Matt (mbedynek{at}cisvcs.net)

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