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custom:messageheader [2011/06/16 10:06] – tracker1custom:messageheader [2019/04/16 02:47] – Overhaul to be more useful digital man
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 ====== Message Header ====== ====== Message Header ======
  
-When reading messages, you will often want to create a custom header for the message reading, as an asc/ans file, instead of the default message header driven by TEXT.DAT settings.+<file> 
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 +</file> 
 +Customizing the message header displayed when users read messages (e.g. posts and mail messages) via the [[server:terminal]] server involves either: 
 +  * Modifying the first 9 strings defined in the system's ''[[dir:ctrl]]/[[custom:text.dat]]'' file, or 
 +  * Creating/modifying the system's ''[[dir:text]]/menu/msghdr.*'' file
  
-The File should exist in ''./text/menu/MSGHDR.ASC'' you can use the ANS2ASC utility for an initial conversion.  You will then want to put the appropriate control codes into the message header.+If you chose the ''text.dat'' file route, here are the strings you'll be interested in: 
 +  * MsgSubj 
 +  * MsgTags 
 +  * MsgAttr 
 +  * MsgTo 
 +  * MsgToNet 
 +  * MsgToExt 
 +  * MsgFrom 
 +  * MsgFromNet 
 +  * MsgFromExt 
 +  * MsgDate 
 +  * MsgVotes 
 +  * MsgHdrBodySeparator 
 +  * PollAnswerChecked 
 +  * ForwardedFrom
  
-Here are a few codes that I find useful (note the -L### is for padding/trimming the length of an item) +If you chose the ''msghdr.*'' file route, here are some [[custom:atcodes|@-codes]] that you may want to include in the file for dynamic string values: 
-  * @SMB_GROUP@ +  * SMB_GROUP 
-  * @SMB_SUB-L#######@ +  * SMB_SUB 
-  * @SMB_CURMSG@ +  * SMB_AREA_DESC 
-  * @SMB_MSGS@ +  * SMB_CURMSG 
-  * @MSG_DATE-L#########################@ +  * SMB_MSGS 
-  * @MSG_ATTR-L#########################@ +  * MSG_DATE 
-  * @MSG_FROM_NAME-L#########################@ +  * MSG_TIMEZONE 
-  * @MSG_TO_NAME-L#########################@ +  * MSG_AGE 
-  * @MSG_SUBJECT-L#########################@+  * MSG_ATTR 
 +  * MSG_FROM_NAME 
 +  * MSG_TO_NAME 
 +  * MSG_SUBJECT
  
-TODO: Clean this page up.+Synchronet comes stock with: 
 +  * An example msghdr.*: http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/text/menu/msghdrexample.asc 
 +  * A message header to use only for 40-columns terminals: http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/text/menu/msghdr.40col.asc
  
 ===== See Also ===== ===== See Also =====
   * [[:custom:atcodes|@-Codes]]   * [[:custom:atcodes|@-Codes]]
   * [[:custom:ctrl-a_codes|Ctrl-A Codes]]   * [[:custom:ctrl-a_codes|Ctrl-A Codes]]
 +  * [[:custom:menu files]]
 +  * [[:config:text files]]
   * [[:custom:|Customization]]   * [[:custom:|Customization]]
  
-{{tag>}}+{{tag>message header}}
  

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