Re: Re: New sysop with a few questions
By: Jason H.@@nospam to alt.bbs.synchronet on Sun Feb 12 2012 05:20 pm
From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
On Feb 12, 12:58 pm, "Momotombo" <momoto...@MMBBS.remove-sbs-this>
wrote:
One issue I've had with looking at the src files is that there's a strange character in an oval shape that says "SOH" inside it wherever there's a CT code. This is from displaying it in notepad++. Is there a better program I could use that would display the CTRL codes properly?
you can change the CTRL+A character to \1 in all your .src files
i use xchange from ruth's utilities for this [google it]
when messing with a file that displays, convert it to ansi first with
the msg2ans
utility or whatever they are calling it now. asc2ans maybe.
then change it back [if you wish. i wouldnt]
Thanks, and I apologize for my noobishness. I think I accidentally deleted of Digital Man's posts and I'm not sure if that affects DOVE-Net entirely just my BBS locally. I'll be more careful when scrolling through messages now on.
when you delete a msg on your bbs, it is just removed from your bbs.
yeah, when I used asc2ans it came out like those screenshots I linked to. I thought I still had to convert them back to asc, but I guess not. I kinda hope not.
I don't really understand what \1 means. is it just a placeholder? how do I change it back to a ctrl code afterward?
thanks for your help.
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