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Wiki edit of http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:text.dat by digital man:
Change links from viewcvs/cvsweb to gitlab.
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Wiki edit of http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:text.dat by digital man:
[Using Defaults] Add example *nix command-line to create an empty text.dat
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Wiki edit of http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:text.dat by digital man:
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To: digital man
Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page changed: custom:text.dat
By: digital man to wiki.synchro.net on Sat May 15 2021 05:48 pm

Wiki edit of http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:text.dat by digital man:
[Using Defaults] Add example *nix command-line to create an empty text.dat

that's a nice feature. how about adding that it creates the file if it's not present [if it doesn't already]
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To: MRO
Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page changed: custom:text.dat
By: MRO to digital man on Sat May 15 2021 11:31 pm

Wiki edit of http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:text.dat by digital man: [Using Defaults] Add example *nix command-line to create an empty text.da

that's a nice feature. how about adding that it creates the file if it's not present [if it doesn't already]

Techically, sbbs already does that, if the text.dat file is missing it used the baked in text strings as default. But ya, perhaps an scfg or exec/sbbs -t option to recreate the text.dat file if it's missing.

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To: Mortifis
Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page changed: custom:text.dat
By: Mortifis to MRO on Sun May 16 2021 06:17 am

Techically, sbbs already does that, if the text.dat file is missing it used the baked in text strings as default. But ya, perhaps an scfg or exec/sbbs -t option to recreate the text.dat file if it's missing.

oh i didnt know when they started doing that. i just know when i screwed up my text.dat back in the day it would take a dive.
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Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page changed: custom:text.dat
By: MRO to Mortifis on Sun May 16 2021 02:07 pm

oh i didnt know when they started doing that. i just know when i screwed up text.dat back in the day it would take a dive.

Ya, not sure when it got baked in, I tested removing ctrl/text.dat on v2.30 and sbbs tanked, but on current versions if text.dat is missing it'll use internal . On the other hand, if text.dat is found and it has errors sbbs might tank or display unexpected strings :D

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