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 Message 44 
 Robert Wolfe to bl00d 
 RE: Clear screen before messages 
 13 Nov 16 15:10:44 
 
On Nov 07, 2016 10:02am, bl00d wrote to All:

 b> I've been messing with my stock vadv setup, starting to customize it and
 b> one of the first things I started looking into was setting it to clear
 b> the screen before each message. Somehow I did this on my old VBBS setup,
 b> but can't seem to figure out how on the new setup.

 b> I did look thru default.s and found the "network" and "local" strings,
 b> but they are not the first output for the message, the message count is
 b> what seems to start the message

 b> I did do source mods back in the day on my VBBS setup, so maybe I
 b> managed to do it in the source.

I know that if you set Enhanced ANSI on in the user profile, then this will
happen (screen clearing when reading messages).  Also might want to make sure
that you have real names toggled on in all of your Fidonet areas.

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