Re: new colors for text.dat
  By: Digital Man to The Millionaire on Fri Jul 19 2019 12:34 am

 >   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
 >  >
 >  >  >   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
 >
 > This Is Spinal Tap quote #8:
 > Derek Smalls: Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea.
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if you wanted sysops to do it themselves, why wasn't it just one color then?
you obviously picked these certain colors for sone reason.

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