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    From IB Joe@1:342/200 to All on Fri Oct 20 12:44:02 2023
    I have double checked, and re-cheched my setup. I have an issue... When I am on the BBS posting an ANSI file manually to a message it posts perfectly like it should...

    BUT... When I try to post the same file with mutil in an auto post it gets screwed up... It looks like Mystic is auto wrapping the lines that exceed the 80 columns...
    I thought I was able to do it before... I see others doing it... WHY!!! can't I do it... my next 2 messages will show you my problem

    IB Joe, Pronouns (FJB/LGB)
    AKA Joe Schweier
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  • From Nicholas Boel@1:154/700 to IB Joe on Fri Oct 20 16:58:43 2023
    Re: Issue
    By: IB Joe to All on Fri Oct 20 2023 12:44 pm

    I have double checked, and re-cheched my setup. I have an issue... When I am on the BBS posting an ANSI file manually to a message it posts perfectly like it should...

    BUT... When I try to post the same file with mutil in an auto post it gets screwed up... It looks like Mystic is auto wrapping the lines that exceed the 80 columns... I thought I was able to do it before... I see others doing it... WHY!!! can't I do it... my next 2 messages will show you my problem

    It looks like when you post via mutil it's not adding "[ANSI]" to the subject line, so maybe mystic is either not detecting that it's an ANSI or
    it's processing it differently than when you upload it via the BBS.

    After actually looking at mutil.ini, it seems the stanza is called "[PostTextFiles]" and mentions nothing about ANSI. Also, whatsnew.txt doesn't mention anything regarding this stanza and posting ANSI files either. It may be possible it doesn't support doing that just yet, or was never intended to?

    Maybe others that actually use that stanza can chime in on this, though, as I see a lot of ANSI posts from other Mystic systems.

    Regards,
    Nick

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From IB Joe@1:342/200 to Nicholas Boel on Fri Oct 20 16:15:59 2023
    On 20 Oct 2023, Nicholas Boel said the following...


    Maybe others that actually use that stanza can chime in on this, though, as I see a lot of ANSI posts from other Mystic systems.

    Regards,
    Nick


    I thought there was a time in my life I could do it...

    Anyway, I think g00r00 did something at some recent point during an upgrade. I hope he finds the time and pokes his nose back in to see what's up!!!

    IB Joe, Pronouns (FJB/LGB)
    AKA Joe Schweier
    SysOp of 4A 6F 65 73 42 42 53
    -=JoesBBS.com=-

    ... Unzip... expand... What kind of pervert came up with this?

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  • From Al@1:153/757 to Nicholas Boel on Fri Oct 20 17:35:30 2023
    Maybe others that actually use that stanza can chime in on this, though, as I see a lot of ANSI posts from other Mystic systems.

    I haven't tried to post an ansi with mutil for a long time.

    If I remember right mutil only posts the first 79 or 80 columbs of text and anything longer than that would simply be discarded. I found that to be the case with any text or ansi file. I always made sure that text was preformatted to fit in that before posting with mutil.

    It's been a very long time since I used mutil, I don't know if that is still the case today or not.

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  • From Nicholas Boel@1:154/700 to Al on Sat Oct 21 07:21:15 2023
    Re: Issue
    By: Al to Nicholas Boel on Fri Oct 20 2023 05:35 pm

    If I remember right mutil only posts the first 79 or 80 columbs of text and anything longer than that would simply be discarded. I found that to be the case with any text or ansi file. I always made sure that text was preformatted to fit in that before posting with mutil.

    That may be exactly what he's encountering. It's taking into consideration all the ansi codes and chopping it off at 79 characters. Otherwise, the ansi is displaying fine.

    Regards,
    Nick

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