Roger Shays has put up a Fastecho tutorial for those interested. Thanks Roger.
You can find it here.
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*** I had to change one line in the prompt below. Where it says @SMB_LAST_MSG@ that should read @SMB_TOTAL_MSGS@. The last message @-Code gives a total number of messages in the sub including deleted, dupes, etc…which may not match what the system actually shows. I found that out in some of the message bases that have a lot of posts, such as new file listings.***
A while back I explained how to replace the message header (two ways, easy and hard) but now my prompt doesn’t match so I replaced my message reading prompt before work this morning. Here are the directions along with a couple of pics:
1. Create your ansi prompt. Here’s mine along with an explanation of the @-codes I used.
The @SMB_GROUP@ tells SBBS to list the current message group (Local, Fidonet, etc…) @SMB_SUB@ is the current sub, or message area, within that group. @SMB_CURMSG@ is the current message number in that group and last of all @SMB_LAST_MSG@ is the last message number available. You’ll see what they do a little later on.
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So the next thing I decided to tackle on the board was the default user settings screen on my board.
I initially attempted to change the text strings in my baja menu source by using the REPLACE_TEXT command in it. That apparently won’t work for whatever reason, so I had to edit the text.dat directly. Be very careful when you edit your text.dat file because you can royally screw things up here.
What I did was to create the entire screen in Ansi and then save each line as a separate file at which point I replaced the text like so:
Make sure to leave the line between prompt 493 and 494 as it is or you’ll mess things up.
This is what it looks like now.
I don’t have any plans to replace the header and footer strings at the moment although I might attempt to do that later. It was actually pretty easy, just a bit of copy and replace. Make sure to only use the string itself, don’t add the ending ESC[255D if your ansi editor inserts it at the end of the file.
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So I’ve added a few more games and things to do on the BBS foryou to check out. I also managed to get Ftelnet working as well. Using that page (above) as my default log in now just because it’s much easier for this old man to see . Anyway, I am about 60% of the way through configuring everything the way I want. I still have a few menus to add and then it will be time to change most of the default strings. I’ve posted a few pics below of what it’s looking like now.
The log in screen
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After doing a lot of hunting I finally came across this guide and am putting it here for posterity. I did switch from Argus to Radius (an Argus Clone) and went through this guide exactly as spelled out and it’s working perfectly. Waiting now for a message back from the NC with a node number. The original guide can be found here.
Updated 12/29/12 – I have also updated the bottom of the post a couple of items if you are in a multi-network situation.
Synchronet Setup For FidoNet
(Windows XP)
By Dantin Hart of Rat’s Nest BBS 9/22/05 Updated by Lord Time of Time Warp of the Future BBS 12/15/08 (on the links and e-mail)
Also Updated by Richard Miles of Shadowscope on 11/14/12Okay heres the deal, you need to download 2 files required to get your Synchronet BBS running with FidoNet and they can be obtained through your Hub’s Coordinator,File names are BACKBONE and nodelist. As was explained to me by Rob Swindel the
author of Synchronet BBS. BACKBONE.NA is the North American BACKBONE FILE.
Make sure to contact your coordinator for the appropriate File Extension and or File.
Also you may talk to your coordinator about getting the current nodelist.%%% <- extension
is a number which changes with every release.
