Subj : Colors and text.ini problems
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jul 10 2024 10:19:06

  Re: Colors and text.ini problems
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Wed Jul 10 2024 09:37 am

 > Subject: Colors and text.ini problems
 > @MSGID: <668EB8AC.68131.dove.sync@realitycheckbbs.org>
 > @TZ: c1e0
 >
 > I'm trying to change colors on some of my prompts. For example, I'm trying
 > to change the "545 LastFewCallersFmt" entry by creating ctrl\text.ini with
 > the line:
 >
 > LastFewCallersFmt: "\r\n\1n\1h\1c%-2d \1n\1g%-6u \1b\1h%-25.25s \1m%-25.25s
 > \1n\1m%02u:%02u \1h%-8.8s \1n\1m%3d"
 >
 > (this is all on one line, terminated with a Windows CR/LF)
 >
 >
 > I recycled the servers, but still don't see the new colors reflected when I
 > log in again. Am I missing something?

That text.dat string is used when sbbs writes to the the (legacy) data/logon.lst. The colors you see when you login are likely from the logonlist.js module, which parses the data/logon.json file and uses the [logonlist] last_few_callers_fmt value from ctrl/modopts.ini to display the eached logged login. This format is different than the text.dat string since it supports more login-types.

So in short, set [logonlist] last_few_callers_fmt instead. The default format can be seen in exec/logonlist.js.
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