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  • Re: Synchronet questions

    From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Mortifis on Thu Mar 11 20:52:00 2021
    On 03-10-21 08:04, Mortifis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    yup, took all of 5 minutes to follow the link, read the instructions
    and scfg everything to pull in 7 messages :-)

    Looking forward to seeing what comes through

    Cool, I've been busier than a 1 legged person in an arse kicking contest. :)


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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Tracker1 on Thu Mar 11 08:03:07 2021
    Re: Re: Synchronet questions
    By: Tracker1 to Nightfox on Wed Mar 10 2021 12:00 pm

    Jump (global) menus were pretty painful, and I don't think I have a copy of my chat menu mods from back then. Would like to get my system back

    I have some global menu navigation commands in my shell. I had designed my original RemoteAccess BBS in the 90s with global navigation commands and wanted to carry that over to my Synchronet BBS. I think it's nice to be able to jump around to anywhere rather than have to go back to the main menu to then go somewhere else.

    Nightfox

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@1:103/705 to MRO on Tue Mar 9 07:41:00 2021
    MRO wrote to Nightfox <=-

    sadly, since 2000, half or more of synchronet's bbses have not had any customization or very little. i dont understand it.

    The stock menu structure is pretty nice. I liked having all of the options available from one menu instead of having separate file and message menus.

    I did some work to pretty up the stock menu at first and liked it, but had network ops that whose networks I wanted to join complain that mine was "too stock".

    Now, I'm running a couple of ANSI headers and a mod of a legacy menu system
    as my primary, with the modded stock Sync menu as an option, I wonder if I'm automatically more l337 now?






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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Tue Mar 9 08:32:00 2021
    Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-

    I always enjoyed using <BBS name>, run by that well known guy, Sysop.

    The one run by Sye-Sop, or Siss-op?




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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@1:103/705 to MRO on Thu Mar 11 06:01:00 2021
    MRO wrote to Digital Man <=-

    that's totally different than my experience with bbses from 91+
    if bbses were stock they didnt get any calls.
    infact, sinced the sysop didnt put any effort into customization, there was nothing else in regards to files, msgs or games.

    I had the opposite experience - I recall completely stock Opus boards that
    had the entire Fido backbone on it.


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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Mar 11 14:06:27 2021
    Re: Re: Synchronet questions
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Tue Mar 09 2021 08:32 am

    I always enjoyed using <BBS name>, run by that well known guy,
    Sysop.

    The one run by Sye-Sop, or Siss-op?

    In one of the interviews in BBS: The Documentary, I remember someone saying they preferred saying "Sye-Sop" because the other pronunciation sounds too much like "sissy op".

    Nightfox

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  • From Tracker1@1:103/705 to Altere on Thu Mar 11 17:47:04 2021
    On 3/8/2021 8:56 PM, Altere wrote:
    Once upon a time I had mine customized, own shell, menus,
    modified text.dat, guru.dat, etc.. Unfortunately, it all got
    lost and I'm no good a designing ansi menus, nor do I have
    the time. I would probably find a few hours to write my own
    shell if I could find someone to do the menus, but that
    hasn't seemed to work with a few posts here and there, even
    on the FB groups hasn't worked. Currently I just update,
    test a few things, report bugs, and read some groups.

    Would suggest snagging all the freebies at ansigarden.com and starting there... maybe consider some of the paid themes or ansi.
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  • From Tracker1@1:103/705 to Rampage on Thu Mar 11 17:49:50 2021
    On 3/9/2021 2:30 AM, Rampage wrote:

    what's wrong with coding the menus into the shell instead of
    having a separate file that also has to be edited if/when
    things change?

    You certainly *can* do that... it will become difficult to maintain or
    update that way. Also, differences for ascii/ansi and if you choose RIP
    will become interestingly difficult as well.
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