Re: Re: Text.dat
  By: Ragnarok to Digital Man on Tue Apr 27 2021 02:42 pm

 > El 25/4/21 a las 23:45, Digital Man escribi¢:
 > >    Re: Text.dat
 > >    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sun Apr 25 2021 07:13 pm
 >
 > >   > Could you please add those lines in text.dat? Thank you.
 >
 > > SBBSecho doesn't use the text.dat. It could, but it doesn't.
 >
 > > Feature requests go here:
 > > https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues
 >
 > If you need to change any sbbsecho message, maybe it is better to put it
 > inside sbbsecho.ini and not depend and load another configuration file.

That's how it works for the mail server (the "NewMailNotice" key in the [mail] section of sbbs.ini) - but here are the reasons I'd consider using the text.dat instead:
- the .ini syntax is different enough from the text.dat to be a challenge
- the other/similar strings are already in the text.dat
- the mail server already loads the text.dat (though it doesn't directly use its strings, they're available for use in JS external mail processors)

And having SBBSecho read/use the text.dat would actually be a pretty trivial change. But yes, the user-visible strings in SBBSecho should be configurable... somewhere.
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