Origin string
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The origin line terminates an echomail and tells the sender‘s FTN address. Thus it has an important technical function. On the other hand, the origin line also leaves space for about 55 bytes of free-form text. They can be used to place your BBS system’s name there, but you can also place other meaningful or meaningless messages there. The text that you specify as the string parameter may include whitespace characters. It will simply be copied into the origin line, but be aware of the fact that MsgEd TE might have to truncate the text in order to prevent the origin line from getting longer than 79 characters.
You can use macro tokens in the origin line to provide some sort of dynamic information. The macros will be expanded to their value when the message is saved. The following macros can be used:
@N
full name of message receiver
@F
first name of message receiver
@L
last name of message receiver
@Y
full name of message author
@D
complete message date (as for example: ‘24 Dec 97’)
@DD
message date, day number (as for example: ‘24’)
@DW
message date, week day (as for example: ‘Mon’)
@DM
message date, month (as for example: ‘Dec’)
@DY
message date, 2 digit year (as for example: ‘97’)
@D4
message date, 4 digit year (as for example: ‘1997’)
@DC
message date, century (as for example: ‘20’)
@T
complete message time (as for example: ‘12:30:24’)
@S
message subject
@A
area tag
@I
message size
@Q
quote ratio
@@
a single @ character
In MsgEd TE, you can also specify more than one Origin
keyword in
the configuration file. MsgEd TE will then automatically select a random
line out of those that you have specified each time that it has to generate
an origin line. This feature is called origin shuffling.