Re: Logon Screens
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Jun 04 2019 09:36 am

 >   Re: Logon Screens
 >   By: Digital Man to HusTler on Mon Jun 03 2019 10:06 pm
 >
 >  DM> The ans2asc utility *used* to be called ans2msg. The .msg files are the
 >  DM> identical format to .asc but may be displayed in place of .asc if they
 >  DM> both exist, depending on the user's terminal capabilities.
 >
 > My understanding is that .asc and .msg files can both contain Synchronet
 > color/attribute codes, is that correct?  I'm not sure why I'd choose .msg
 > over .asc or vice-versa when creating a menu file.

If you're only going to create one flavor it doesn't really matter which. It
only matters when you want to provide different flavors of the file for
TTY/ASCII-only users and Ex-ASCII/CP437 users.

                                            digital man

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