Subj : Re: Questions To : Linuxhavok From : Tracker1 Date : Sun Jun 12 2005 02:16 am Linuxhavok wrote: > Hello One ans all! > > I have some questions I'd like to ask. > > After running a wildcat board sometime ago and now a noob at running synchronet > I have some questions I'd like to ask! welcome to the fray.. :) > One, what file is it to change the prompt colors for the site Most prompts are defined in text.dat, there is another file that defines some of the colors, I forget the name though, this isn't as widely used... menu prompts are in the shell src in question. :) > Two: Can I make menus with prompts for the doors, chat and telneting to other > sites? Drop in here sometime, not to toot my own horn, but have a pretty nice setup for the door menu as an example.. you can use the javascript object model to display doors as a menu in many ways... as for chat, see chat_sec.js for telnetting, you can use ?telgate.js sitename.wherever > Three: I was told I do not need a fossil driver, true? The fossil is built in, and included... it's transparent.. the telnet connections are handled internally allong with menus, for running fossil aware doors, the fossil is loaded transparently... > Four: I was reading some of the docs and it looks like you don't need a > external program to toss mail ie: irex or another, for fido? sbbsecho comes with synchronet, it is an external program, but included... it is used for tossing mail in/out of sync to your ftn mail gateway... you can also do qwk and nntp networking. > Five: where would be some of the best sites for picking up some ansi menu's to > modify for my site? You can grab the older js based s3 shell from my website on the download page... afaik it (the shell) should work without issue, have heard of some issues getting the menu promp mod to work... -- Michael J. Ryan - tracker1(at)theroughnecks(dot)net - www.theroughnecks.net icq: 4935386 - AIM/AOL: azTracker1 - Y!: azTracker1 - MSN/Win: (email) --- þ Synchronet þ theroughnecks.net - you know you want it .