Re: Logon Screens
  By: HusTler to all on Mon Jun 03 2019 08:08 pm

 >   Re: Logon Screens
 >   By: HusTler to Nightfox on Mon Jun 03 2019 07:39 pm
 >
 >  Hu> I've been meaning to ask about that. I get the ans2asc and asc2ans and
 >  Hu> have been using them. What is a msg file? Why no ans2msg or asc2msg? Is
 >  Hu> this another syncronet creation?
 >
 >  I read the wiki and still don't "get it".
 >
 > .asc ASCII characters (CP437 characters, optionally)
 > .msg ASCII/CP437 characters 1)
 > .seq PETSCII characters and control-sequences
 > .ans ASCII/CP437 characters and ANSI X3.64 Terminal control-sequences
 > .mon ASCII/CP437 characters and ANSI X3.64 Terminal control-sequences suited
 > for monochrome displays
 > .rip ASCII/CP437 characters and RIPscrip Terminal control-sequences

For most sysops, just creating a .msg or .asc (not both) will be all you
want/need. It's usually much easier to maintain a single file. If you only have
 one or the other, then I would suggest .msg - but it really makes very little
difference which.

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