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    From Marco R@2:280/2030 to g00r00 on Sun Feb 20 12:49:09 2022
    Hello g00r00,

    I tried to add a file listing header for a file base but without luck.
    I entered a name in the field Display File (File Base Editor) without an extension. Then I created some header file and put it in the data dir (and/or text dir). But it is not showing up. Questions are:

    1. how to make it work :)
    2. is an extension needed (i also tried with extensions like .asc or .hdr
    3. what is the location of the file

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  • From g00r00@1:129/215 to Marco R on Mon Feb 21 11:09:29 2022
    I tried to add a file listing header for a file base but without luck.
    I entered a name in the field Display File (File Base Editor) without an extension. Then I created some header file and put it in the data dir (and/or text dir). But it is not showing up. Questions are:

    The Display File field is not a header, its a file that contains whatever you want that is displayed first before listing files in the base. It could give instructions etc. I suppose you could try to use it as a header though.

    The actual header is either in the prompts editor for the standard file listing or the template file for the full screen file listing.

    If you set Display File to "test" then it will display text.XXX from the theme's text directory where XXX is ASC, ANS depending on the users terminal and so on. You can read more about how display files work here:

    http://wiki.mysticbbs.com/doku.php?id=display_files

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  • From Marco R@2:280/2030 to g00r00 on Mon May 2 18:09:01 2022
    The Display File field is not a header, its a file that contains
    whatever you want that is displayed first before listing files in the base. It could give instructions etc. I suppose you could try to use
    it as a header though.

    Hmmm, ok ... well I use it as a header ;) - I found the problem why it was not working, the name in the field and filename must be in caps (Linux) and the extension in lower case .....

    The actual header is either in the prompts editor for the standard file listing or the template file for the full screen file listing.

    Yeah, but I want to show a unique header in every file area.

    But it is working now except for 1 thing. If I don't add a pause at the end of the file (header) it's not visible for user. That means, the file lister doesn't add the number of lines of the header to the file listing length. So in my case (24x80) the first page should be 5 (header) + 1 (actual file list header) + 18 (listing+prompt). But its 5 + 1 + 23 .... I am using the normal file list type ;)

    Greets!

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