Re: Changing prompts from green to another colour?
By: Digital Man to Waveyuk on Wed Feb 11 2026 02:40 pm

The other strings are in the ctrl/text.dat file e.g.
"\1-\1gSub-boards of \1h%-60.60s \1n\1gMsgs"\ 125 SubLstHdr
"\r\n\r\n\1h"

... which you can override by adding a line to your ctrl/text.ini file (replacing \1g with \1m):
SubLstHdr: "\1-\1mSub-boards of \1h%-60.60s \1n\1mMsgs\r\n\r\n\1h"

So whatever happened after this? Are you still having problems with text colors/attributes?
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Re: Changing prompts from green to another colour?
By: Digital Man to Waveyuk on Sun Feb 15 2026 21:50:37

Hi Rob...

So whatever happened after this? Are you still having problems with text colors/attributes?

Yeah, sorry for delay - my work has kept me busy the last week or so, and this is the first time I've had chance to come back and revisit!

Not only did I change the menomic as suggested, I searched the "text.dat" file for all instances of "Message Groups" of which there was two. I then copied the text lines as you showed in last message into a new text.ini file, and replaced any occurrence of "\1g" with "\1m". Saved the file, and logged on to the BBS and no change. I even tried "systemctl restart sbbs" to see if I needed to flush the BBS in some way, and it made no difference. So I am at a loss as to why these codes are not being picked up. It's very strange.

All the best
Dave

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Re: Changing prompts from green to another colour?
By: Waveyuk to Digital Man on Wed Feb 18 2026 03:38 pm

Re: Changing prompts from green to another colour?
By: Digital Man to Waveyuk on Sun Feb 15 2026 21:50:37

Hi Rob...

So whatever happened after this? Are you still having problems with text colors/attributes?

Yeah, sorry for delay - my work has kept me busy the last week or so, and this is the first time I've had chance to come back and revisit!

Not only did I change the menomic as suggested, I searched the "text.dat" file for all instances of "Message Groups" of which there was two. I then copied the text lines as you showed in last message into a new text.ini file, and replaced any occurrence of "\1g" with "\1m". Saved the file, and logged on to the BBS and no change. I even tried "systemctl restart sbbs" to see if I needed to flush the BBS in some way, and it made no difference. So I am at a loss as to why these codes are not being picked up. It's very strange.

Can you paste the contents of your ctrl/attr.ini and text.ini files here so I can see what you have?

Also, if you could run the following command, as sysop, from the Terminal Server (default command shell works best):

;eval console.color_list

and paste the output of that here, that'd be helpful as well.
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Re: Changing prompts from green to another colour?
By: Digital Man to Waveyuk on Wed Feb 18 2026 10:31:26

Hi Rob.

Sorry for the delay - work is manic at the moment. I will try to get around to giving that information in the next week or so once things have quietened down somewhat.

All the best
Dave

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