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    From Dennis Katsonis@1:124/5016 to All on Sun Aug 2 23:43:03 2020
    Hi,
    This may be a noob question, but I'm finding something which I think should work one particular way, doesn't.


    I have an ANSI file that I want to display when a menu is selected, before going to the selected menu.

    I have added the command
    (GD) @57600@TRUE@fil-nach0

    The problem is, that it doesn't pause. If I change TRUE to END, it does, but only at the end, and the ANSI is more than 24 lines long.

    I thought that this would display the file one screen at a time, that it would pause the screen during the display. Are there reasons that this would not happen?

    Thanks,
    Dennis Katsonis
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  • From Doug Cooper@1:227/702 to Dennis Katsonis on Tue Aug 25 16:46:06 2020

    I have an ANSI file that I want to display when a menu is selected,
    before going to the selected menu.


    Have you tried using pablo draw and adding |PA where you want it to
    pause, with a |CL where you want clear screens?

    -tG

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  • From Doug Cooper@1:227/702 to Doug Cooper on Tue Aug 25 16:49:16 2020
    Have you tried using pablo draw and adding |PA where you want it to
    pause, with a where you want clear screens?

    sorry pipe codes not showing in my reply. Pipe code plus PA pauses,
    pipe code plus CL clears screen, on long ANSI's you want displayed that
    are long with intentional pauses. Doing so within an editor is
    easiest. What can keep an ANSI from pausing when beyond 24 lines is a
    pipe code PO at the beginning and/or saving using mystic's ansi editor
    with the option set to not pause.

    -tG

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  • From Dennis Katsonis@1:124/5016 to Doug Cooper on Wed Aug 26 20:41:00 2020
    Doug Cooper wrote to Dennis Katsonis <=-


    I have an ANSI file that I want to display when a menu is selected,
    before going to the selected menu.


    Have you tried using pablo draw and adding |PA where you want it to
    pause, with a |CL where you want clear screens?

    -tG

    No, I didn't. I tried it and it worked. Thank you.

    I would have thought that there would have been a way to display a long ANSI with pauses inbetween, but this works fine.

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  • From Doug Cooper@1:227/702 to Dennis Katsonis on Wed Aug 26 15:11:41 2020
    No, I didn't. I tried it and it worked. Thank you.
    I would have thought that there would have been a way to display a long ANSI with pauses inbetween, but this works fine.

    I am surprised that your ANSI was not pausing on it's own, but I prefer
    the pipe code anyway, as opposed to the "Y/N/Continue" pause prompt
    that displays beyond 24 lines. It may have just been how your ANSI was
    saved.. But glad you got it working.

    -tG

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  • From Dennis Katsonis@1:124/5016 to Doug Cooper on Thu Aug 27 11:07:00 2020
    Doug Cooper wrote to Dennis Katsonis <=-

    No, I didn't. I tried it and it worked. Thank you.
    I would have thought that there would have been a way to display a long ANSI with pauses inbetween, but this works fine.

    I am surprised that your ANSI was not pausing on it's own, but I prefer the pipe code anyway, as opposed to the "Y/N/Continue" pause prompt
    that displays beyond 24 lines. It may have just been how your ANSI was saved.. But glad you got it working.

    -tG

    I didn't make the ANSI. I have another which elsewhere, does pause. Using the same command I thought would result in the same result.

    I suspect it may be a bug in Mystic? But I've got a workaround now.

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  • From g00r00@1:129/215 to Dennis Katsonis on Wed Aug 26 23:14:09 2020
    I didn't make the ANSI. I have another which elsewhere, does pause. Using the same command I thought would result in the same result.

    I suspect it may be a bug in Mystic? But I've got a workaround now.

    Screen pauses works by the physical lines in the file, so if the ANSI is not saved with unlimited line length then pausing may be strange.

    If you want to fix it your problematic file you should be able to load it up in Mystic's ANSI editor and save it with the "Line Length" set to 0 and that should do it.

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