Hi there,

Is there a way that i can have multiple commands that start with the same letter. For example i have 2 commands in my main menu "D" for the command Download and "Doors" for Door Games. The question is can i tell Mystic that when the letter "D" is pressed not to execute the Download command but to
wait for a <enter> by the user so he can type "Doors" if he wants.

I hope you guys understand what I mean.

Regards,

MaDDoG

George (FoRTKNoX)
a.k.a. MaDDoG
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letter. For example i have 2 commands in my main menu "D" for the command Download and "Doors" for Door Games. The question is can i tell Mystic that when the letter "D" is pressed not to execute the Download command but to wait for a <enter> by the user so he can type "Doors" if he wants.

There sure is... and it's a simple thing...

Go to mystic -cfg
Edit Menu
Select the Menu you want to Edit...
Press /
Select Settings
Change the Input Type to LongKey
Esc and Save out.
Now all menu commands will require the user to press Enter

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On 09/09/17, MaDDoG said the following...

Download and "Doors" for Door Games. The question is can i tell Mystic that when the letter "D" is pressed not to execute the Download command but to wait for a <enter> by the user so he can type "Doors" if he wants.

Yep, go into the settings for your menu and set input type to "LongInput" and that will disable the hotkeys and make it more PCBoard-ish.

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On 09/09/17, MaDDoG said the following...

Is there a way that i can have multiple commands that start with the same letter. For example i have 2 commands in my main menu "D" for the command Download and "Doors" for Door Games. The question is can i tell Mystic that when the letter "D" is pressed not to execute the Download command but to wait for a <enter> by the user so he can type "Doors" if he wants.

Quick answer No, but you can have a D and a /D. If you look at the main menu and some others / can work, I'm not sure if it's only / or non-alpha characters, but there is something special there. When you hit / it waits for another character to pick which / you want. D1 doesn't work, but /D does.

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Well that was a great help mate and yes it was very simple but you got to
know it :)

George (FoRTKNoX)
a.k.a. MaDDoG
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Sssssssssssssst Zero ;) don't tell everything about pcboard'isch :) Thnx for the help mate.

George (FoRTKNoX)
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Hi bcw142,

2 people say it can. I haven't tried it yet but I think what they said could work. When it does not work you will see me in here again. But if I dont
reply to this subject anymore it does work.

George (FoRTKNoX)
a.k.a. MaDDoG
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On 09/11/17, MaDDoG said the following...

Sssssssssssssst Zero ;) don't tell everything about pcboard'isch :) Thnx for the help mate.

Sorry man! I didn't mean to give out trade secrets, hehehe. My most recent theme on my Mystic setup is sort of PCBoard-ish, but it uses all hotkey
input, hehe.

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Is there a way that i can have multiple commands that start with the same letter. For example i have 2 commands in my main menu "D" for the command Download and "Doors" for Door Games. The question is can i tell Mystic that when the letter "D" is pressed not to execute the Download command but to wait for a <enter> by the user so he can type "Doors" if he wants.

You have to go into the /S of the menu (Menu Settings) and set it to longkeys, and then you can put whatever you want and Mystic will wait for enter.

So you can have menus like:

(MAIN)
(DOORS)
(D) Download
etc

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Well then you and I got the same idea. On my new system it will be
pcboard-isch look and feel. Its a hell of a job but fun to do it :) I still didn't have a look at your secret ;)

George (FoRTKNoX)
a.k.a. MaDDoG
fortknox.bbs.io:56500

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Thnx g00r00 with the help of some guys i got the answer to it. Thanks anyway for taking your time to reply.

George (FoRTKNoX)
a.k.a. MaDDoG
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Quoting MaDDoG to Zero Reader <=-

Well then you and I got the same idea. On my new system it will be pcboard-isch look and feel. Its a hell of a job but fun to do it :) I still didn't have a look at your secret ;)

I once made telegard for dos look like pcboard. Tim strike called it once
and couldn't believe what I did. My only reply was "I was under employed
that year" <lol>

Shawn

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Shawn,

What are you saying I have not enough work to do :):):) Thnx for encouraging me. Think i misspelled that one ;)

George

George (FoRTKNoX)
a.k.a. MaDDoG
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On 09/13/17, MaDDoG said the following...

Well then you and I got the same idea. On my new system it will be pcboard-isch look and feel. Its a hell of a job but fun to do it :) I still didn't have a look at your secret ;)

You can come really close to the PCBoard experience with Mystic, except
Mystic has an editor and reading system that is much friendlier to use, heheh.

My latest theme is a mashup of PCBoard and AmigaExpress... first came
PCBoard, then Ami/X tried to emulate PCBoard, then PCBoard sysops tried to emulate Ami/X, and now I'm using Mystic to emulate Ami/X... it's a circle of madness.

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Yeah it really is zero, well like i said i am working on new theme one with ami/x looks pcboard'isch and a theme with full blown ansi's also
pcboard'isch. And yes the big advantage of Mystic is the mail availability.

George (FoRTKNoX)
a.k.a. MaDDoG
fortknox.bbs.io:56500

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On 09/14/17, MaDDoG said the following...

Yeah it really is zero, well like i said i am working on new theme one with ami/x looks pcboard'isch and a theme with full blown ansi's also pcboard'isch. And yes the big advantage of Mystic is the mail availability.

I managed to get FTN mail flowing with PCBoard and IREX this past weekend. It wasn't too hard despite PCBoard's quirks trying to derail me. I can point you to a good tutorial if you need it.

But either way, I still contend Mystic has the best reading/writing system
for messages of any BBS I've ever used.

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I managed to get FTN mail flowing with PCBoard and IREX this past
weekend. It wasn't too hard despite PCBoard's quirks trying to derail
me. I can point you to a good tutorial if you need it.

Can you point me to that tutorial?

Ruben Figueroa aka Zazz
Mystic Prison Board Sysop
telnet://pb.darktech.org:24
Web: www.rdfig.net

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On 09/14/17, Zazz said the following...

weekend. It wasn't too hard despite PCBoard's quirks trying to derail me. I can point you to a good tutorial if you need it.

Can you point me to that tutorial?

Are you on the PCBoard sysops group on Facebook? They have some files for download in the group and one of them is the IREX/PCB tutorial. I'll try and grab it and maybe put it on my board or mail it to you if you want.

-ZR

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Are you on the PCBoard sysops group on Facebook? They have some files for download in the group and one of them is the IREX/PCB tutorial. I'll try and grab it and maybe put it on my board or mail it to you if you want.

-ZR

Didn't know it existed. I'll see if I can find it, but sure would appreciate if you could make it available.

I can send netmail to my hub but sending netmail directly to another sysop I have not been able to do (not my hub sysop)

Ruben Figueroa aka Zazz
Mystic Prison Board Sysop
telnet://pb.darktech.org:24
Web: www.rdfig.net

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Hi Zero,

I am looking forward to receive your information about connection pcboard to thoose mail systems you mentioned. Please let me know. Maybe you can upload
it to my systems.

Regards,

George (FoRTKNoX)
a.k.a. MaDDoG
fortknox.bbs.io:56500

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On 09/16/17, MaDDoG said the following...

I am looking forward to receive your information about connection
pcboard to thoose mail systems you mentioned. Please let me know. Maybe you can upload it to my systems.

Sure enough, just grab it from here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3dquk4lt3ypf6qu/PCB-IREX.TXT?dl=0

-ZR

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On 09/15/17, Zazz said the following...

Didn't know it existed. I'll see if I can find it, but sure would appreciate if you could make it available.

Here you go!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3dquk4lt3ypf6qu/PCB-IREX.TXT?dl=0

Enjoy!

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Didn't know it existed. I'll see if I can find it, but sure would appreciate if you could make it available.

Here you go!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3dquk4lt3ypf6qu/PCB-IREX.TXT?dl=0

Thanks, got it.

Ruben Figueroa aka Zazz
Mystic Prison Board Sysop
telnet://pb.darktech.org:24
Web: www.rdfig.net

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Zero Reader wrote to Zazz <=-

@TZ: 40f0
On 09/15/17, Zazz said the following...

Didn't know it existed. I'll see if I can find it, but sure would appreciate if you could make it available.

Here you go!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3dquk4lt3ypf6qu/PCB-IREX.TXT?dl=0

I've grabbed a copy too, as I'm on the other end of the link. :)


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Thnx buddy I got. Now I have to read it...

Cheers,

George (FoRTKNoX)
a.k.a. MaDDoG
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Zero can you tell me how to I can get a Fido point. That site in your
document you got is dead. On the internet only old information about Fidonet and cannot find a application form.

Regards,

George (FoRTKNoX)
a.k.a. MaDDoG
fortknox.bbs.io:56500

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On 09/22/17, MaDDoG said the following...

Zero can you tell me how to I can get a Fido point. That site in your document you got is dead. On the internet only old information about Fidonet and cannot find a application form.

You typically apply for a node number with your local/regional fido coordinator. You should be able to apply online at fidonet.org. Then you need to find someone who can feed you the mail. I get mine from Fluph BBS, but I think Avon offers a feed also. I had to nag people to get my node number as
the local coordinator wasn't really responsive here until Janis got involved.

All that being said, Fidonet really doesn't offer anything of interest to me and I don't know whether it's even worth bothering with anymore, but YMMV. I have at least one user who keeps the political debate lively, so I keep it running for that, and the Mystic base is OK.

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MaDDoG wrote to Zero Reader <=-

@TZ: 0078
Zero can you tell me how to I can get a Fido point. That site in your document you got is dead. On the internet only old information about Fidonet and cannot find a application form.

Do you want a point or a full node? FOr a point, there is no formal process, you just ask your boss node (the BBS you want to take a feed from) if you can be a point off their system, or if you're like me and have 2 BBSs, one of which is a Fidonet node, you can simply set the second BBS up as a point off the first - no paperwork needed. :)

If you want a full node number, you need to find the nearest *C in the nodelist and send them a netmail using one of the addresses specified in Policy4 as your source Fide address (like zone:net/9999).


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