Re: Logon Screens
  By: HusTler to Nightfox on Mon Jun 03 2019 07:39 pm

 >   Re: Logon Screens
 >   By: Nightfox to mark lewis on Mon Jun 03 2019 09:17 am
 >
 >  Hu>>> Oh..No.. I don't. I figured if my term is ansi I would just need
 >  Hu>>> logon1.ans. I'll try adding logon1.asc
 >  ML>> might be better to go with *.msg format since it can contain color
 >  ML>> codes which will be transmitted or not as the remote end needs...
 >
 >  Ni> Same with .asc.. .asc files can contain Synchronet color codes, which
 >  Ni> will be converted to ANSI or left out, depending on the user's terminal
 >
 >  I've been meaning to ask about that. I get the ans2asc and asc2ans and have
 > been using them. What is a msg file? Why no ans2msg or asc2msg? Is this
 > another syncronet creation?

The ans2asc utility *used* to be called ans2msg. The .msg files are the
identical format to .asc but may be displayed in place of .asc if they both
exist, depending on the user's terminal capabilities.

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