Subj : text.dat 'quirks'
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jan 10 2005 04:31 pm

  Re: text.dat 'quirks'
  By: Angus Mcleod to Digital Man on Sun Jan 09 2005 12:06 pm

 > I notice that whereas most lines in text.dat have a numeric key and
 > a single alpha (alphameric?) key,

It's actually a comment (anything out of the double-quotes is ignored)
referring to the matching constant from src/sbbs3/text.h.

 > that:
 > 
 > Line 661 has NO alpha(meric?) key at all

That's harmless.

 >, and
 > 
 > Line 720 has a key of "YNQP (Yes/No/Quit/Password chars)" with whitespace
 > and other non-alpha(meric?) symbols.

The stock line is actually:

"YNQ*"                                                  720 YNQP
(Yes/No/Quit/Password chars)

YNQP is the actual constant name (from text.h), while the text in parens is
just additional comments (since "YNQP" is pretty terse).

 > According to readtext() in load_cfg.c it looks as if all of this is
 > ignored anyway, and only the position in the file that matters to
 > REPLACE_TEXT/REVERT_TEXT and the BBS generally anyway.  Is that correct?

Correct.

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