Re: new colors for text.dat
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Thu Jul 18 2019 08:57 pm
> Re: new colors for text.dat
> By: Digital Man to The Millionaire on Thu Jul 18 2019 07:20 pm
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> > Re: new colors for text.dat
> > By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Thu Jul 18 2019 06:44 pm
> >
> > > Re: new colors for text.dat
> > > By: Digital Man to The Millionaire on Thu Jul 18 2019 05:59 pm
> > >
> > > > Re: new colors for text.dat
> > > > By: The Millionaire to All on Thu Jul 18 2019 05:08 pm
> > > >
> > > > > should there be new colors for text.dat?
>
> > > > I don't understand the question. In general, your questions and
> > > > comments seem to be too vague to be understood or replied to in any
> > > > meaningful way.
>
> > > ok let me word it this way then. is the text.dat going to have a color
> > > makeover?
>
> > I don't have one planned.
>
> > > they have been the same for many years now.
>
> > They're pretty easy to change.
> yes they are but a lot of work to go through 825 lines it being the biggest
> modifiable file in synchronet bbs alone which keeps growing every year by
> the way as well too. if you do it the quickie way you can have it down in
> about 5-10 mins but if you comb through it thoroughly it can take days
> because your eyesget tired of looking at those lines after awhile.
Ever use search and replace feature of a text editor? You could do a global
search and replace of ^AY (yellow) with ^AM (magenta) in a few seconds. Or you
could get smarter with regular expressions or common tools like sed.
In any case, you asked about a "color makeover" - how would that help sysops
that want to change all the colors in the text.dat?
digital man
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