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 Message 15896 
 Todd Yatzook to Jeff Earle 
 Re: Mystic Clearing Screen During Login  
 27 Jan 25 11:22:34 
 
TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A49
MSGID: 1:142/799 e4e2779c
REPLY: 1:229/700 af98d577
TZUTC: -0500
On 26 Jan 2025, Jeff Earle said the following...
 
 JE> I'm trying to understand something and hope there is a work around.
 JE> It seems to me that the login sequence for Mystic is that after the bbs
 JE> detects a logon it displays a PRELOGON.ANS or .ASC. Currently mine is
 JE> longer than 50 lines so it gives a Yes No Continous prompt for
 JE> displaying the PRELOGON.*. Then when the user chooses y,n or c, Mystic
 JE> clears the Screen and displays the preuser.* and then the enter username
 JE> prompt. If I'm wrong on this sequence please let me know.
 JE> What I want to know if there is a work around for Mystic not to clear the
 JE> screen before displaying the preuser.* file? I really don't want to
 JE> change the name of the prelogon.* to preuser.*. I kinda like the
 JE> sequence but don't want a clear screen. 
 JE> Any ideas?

Had a big ol' explainy reply for ya, had to delete the entire thing just to
say this: open your Mystic preuser.ans in a text editor (I'm assuming you're
talking about the default one) and in the top-left of the file you'll see
16CL (real pipe codes, not literally ). Delete the CL
part, et voila!

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