Not that I don't like the WWIV screen that is displayed when you initially connect to my system, but I really have a lot of welcome screens that I'd like to have used instead.

I've checked the wiki, and scoured the WWIV, MENUS, and GFILES section in my installation, can't seem to find that so I know what the menu structure is for changing it.

Where can I find that picture/screen?



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Not that I don't like the WWIV screen that is displayed when you
initially connect to my system, but I really have a lot of welcome
screens that I'd like to have used instead.

I've checked the wiki, and scoured the WWIV, MENUS, and GFILES section
in my installation, can't seem to find that so I know what the menu structure is for changing it.

Where can I find that picture/screen?

I see my welcome.ans and logon.ans in my \gfiles folder.



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On Friday,April 26, 2024 at 01:10, Patch wrote:

Not that I don't like the WWIV screen that is displayed when you
initially connect to my system, but I really have a lot of welcome
screens that I'd like to have used instead.

I've checked the wiki, and scoured the WWIV, MENUS, and GFILES section
in my installation, can't seem to find that so I know what the menu structure is for changing it.

Where can I find that picture/screen?

These are in the GFILES directory.

WWIV will look for files matching "welcome.*". If it finds "welcome.0", it will look for "welcome.1", "welcome.2", etc. then it will randomly display one. If it doesn't find "welcome.0", it will look for "welcome.ans" or "welcome.asc".

This is what I remember happens. If you look in bbs/lilo.cpp, it is in GetAnsiStatusAndShowWelcomeScreen().


Good luck! :)


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On Friday,April 26, 2024 at 07:20 AM, Jimmy Mac wrote:

RE: Re: Welcome msg/ans
BY: Patch #1 @142

Not that I don't like the WWIV screen that is displayed when you initially connect to my system, but I really have a lot of welcome screens that I'd like to have used instead.

I've checked the wiki, and scoured the WWIV, MENUS, and GFILES
section
in my installation, can't seem to find that so I know what the menu structure is for changing it.

Where can I find that picture/screen?

I see my welcome.ans and logon.ans in my \gfiles folder

I' fairly positive I've tried that, since that was where they were in v4.xx. I'll look again and see what I can see.



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On Monday,April 29, 2024 at 06:02 AM, Xenos wrote:

RE: Re: Welcome msg/ans
BY: Patch #1 @142
On Friday,April 26, 2024 at 01:10, Patch wrote:

Not that I don't like the WWIV screen that is displayed when you initially connect to my system, but I really have a lot of welcome screens that I'd like to have used instead.

I've checked the wiki, and scoured the WWIV, MENUS, and GFILES
section
in my installation, can't seem to find that so I know what the menu structure is for changing it.

Where can I find that picture/screen?

These are in the GFILES directory.

WWIV will look for files matching "welcome.*". If it finds "welcome.0",
it will
look for "welcome.1", "welcome.2", etc. then it will randomly display
one. If
it doesn't find "welcome.0", it will look for "welcome.ans" or "welcome.asc".

This is what I remember happens. If you look in bbs/lilo.cpp, it is in GetAnsiStatusAndShowWelcomeScreen().

Good luck! :)

Yeah, I have a bunch of ANS files that we designed that I'd like to use, we weren't insanely popular but we did the ANSI scene with the rest of them.

Good times. =)

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