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    From Ozz Nixon@21:1/144 to All on Mon Apr 29 09:06:08 2019
    IN the 90's to call an external FSE we had to drop to disk (I think):
    MSGHDR and MSGTMP? And when the editor was finished, it would rewrite
    MSGTMP?

    Anyone know/remember the filenames, and if there was a structure to them?

    Instead of me reinventing a line-editor and full screen editor for each
    of the BBSes I am rewriting, I figure, make them externals ;-)

    Thanks!

    Ozz

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  • From Ozz Nixon@21:1/144 to Ozz Nixon on Mon Apr 29 10:11:26 2019
    On 2019-04-29 09:06:08 +0000, Ozz Nixon -> All said:

    IN the 90's to call an external FSE we had to drop to disk (I think):
    MSGHDR and MSGTMP? And when the editor was finished, it would rewrite
    MSGTMP?

    FWIW... found this in my QuickBBS source:

    Assign(TopEdFile,NodePath+'MSG.INF');
    Rewrite(TopEdFile);
    Writeln(TopEdFile,HdrRec.WhoFrom);
    Writeln(TopEdFile,HdrRec.WhoTo);
    Writeln(TopEdFile,HdrRec.Subj);
    Writeln(TopEdFile,BoardRec.Name);
    If Odd(HdrRec.MsgAttr shr 3) then
    Writeln(TopEdFile,'Private')
    Else
    Writeln(TopEdFile,'Public');
    Close(TopEdFile);

    But, I am not finding what the filename is for the original msg text -
    for quoting. Let alone, the file that is dropped by the editor to the
    BBS of the final message if postable...

    Ozz

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