Subj : Hi!
To   : Sean Dennis
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Jun 23 2015 10:33 am


22 Jun 15 20:04, you wrote to Paul Hayton:

 SD> See, I enjoy putting up "holiday" ANSI/ASCII screens.  Now MBSE can do so
 SD> if someone wants to turn on bulletins, but I wanted something simpler, 
much
 SD> like what I did when I ran Maximus/2.  Using Maximus' scripting language, 
I
 SD>  programmed in a little script that checked if "holiday.bbs" (Maximus
 SD> requires all ANSI screens to be converted to bytecode to show correctly)
 SD> existed, it'd show it.  I put a little line in newuser.c that checks for
 SD> the existence of "holiday.ans/.asc" and shows it.

does mbse have the ability to display certain files based on the date?

eg:
01-01.ans     happy new year
02-14.ans     valentines day
03-17.ans     st. patricks day
07-04.ans     4th of july
12-**.ans     holiday screen for each day of december

i've thought about doing something to allow for the selection of a random 
screen from a set...

eg:
01-01xxx.ans  where xxx is -00 thru -99 or maybe just 000-999 for 1000 
choices...

coming up with that many christmas screens would be daunting :)

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