• Odd Mystic differences

    From apam@21:4/110 to apam on Monday, July 27, 2020 04:32:10
    On BZ&BZ bbs the dash dash dash before TitanMail tagline is converted to underscore underscore underscore. On agency it is not.

    --- TitanMail/QWK (netbsd)

    I wonder why?

    Andrew

    --- TitanMail/QWK (netbsd)

    --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: BZ&BZ BBS (21:4/110)
  • From Al@21:4/106 to apam on Monday, July 27, 2020 01:43:31
    Hello apam,

    On BZ&BZ bbs the dash dash dash before TitanMail tagline is converted
    to underscore underscore underscore. On agency it is not.

    --- TitanMail/QWK (netbsd)

    I wonder why?

    Some software will change a tearline to ___ or === so you don't get more than one tearline. I don't think it's so much the case anymore but at one time a lot of FTN software would end a message at the tearline wether it was done or not so in those days it was important.

    I think MBSE does the same thing with QWK uploads if they have a tearline.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106)
  • From apam@21:1/101 to Al on Monday, July 27, 2020 20:53:38
    Some software will change a tearline to ___ or === so you don't get more
    than
    one tearline. I don't think it's so much the case anymore but at one time a lot of FTN software would end a message at the tearline wether it was done
    or
    not so in those days it was important.

    I was wondering more why one version of mystic did it but another did not. I think it might be because I stopped adding a carraige return behind my tear line as the last message from BZ&BZ did the same as agency and left it alone.

    Andrew

    --- TitanMail/QWK (netbsd)

    --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A46 2020/05/28 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Al@21:4/106 to apam on Monday, July 27, 2020 01:57:06
    Hello apam,

    Some software will change a tearline to ___ or === so you don't get
    more than one tearline. I don't think it's so much the case anymore
    but at one time a lot of FTN software would end a message at the
    tearline wether it was done or not so in those days it was
    important.

    I was wondering more why one version of mystic did it but another did
    not. I think it might be because I stopped adding a carraige return
    behind my tear line as the last message from BZ&BZ did the same as
    agency and left it alone.

    --- TitanMail/QWK (netbsd)

    Yeah, this one was left intact.

    Aside from MultiMail I don't know of a QWK reader that adds tearlines. It might be better just to leave it out and let the BBS do it.

    --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A46 2020/05/28 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz
    (21:1/101)

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106)