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   PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/3fa76ba1d Dec 21 2025 GCC 13.3.0   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.33-Linux master/93cefd0e8 Dec 20 2025 GCC 12.2.0   
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   NOTE: SlyEdit 1.92e (2025-11-11) (ICE style)   
     Re: pros and cons   
     By: Accession to MRO on Tue Dec 23 2025 06:42 pm   
      
    Ac> I would still throw that in the programming category, but my point was   
    Ac> that you don't /need/ to use javascript, or perl, or any programming   
    Ac> language for that matter, to modify a BBS. Some of the most modded systems   
    Ac> I've seen over the years were OBV/2 and Renegade - which have no   
    Ac> scripting, programming, or anything like that. It was all simple menu   
    Ac> editing and TheDraw ansimations.   
      
   With Synchronet, I think the thing that was a little surprising to me when I   
   first started using it is that in order to customize your menus (such as the   
   commands & actions), you do need to modify the command shell, which involves   
   some programming (either with Baja or JavaScript).  Other BBS packages have a   
   menu editor you can run where you can specify the commands & actions for each   
   menu without doing programming.   
      
   One question I often see come up from new Synchronet sysops is how to modify   
   one of their menus, and the answer is invariably to change the command shell.    
      
   There is a menu editor/command shell generator for Synchronet now though   
   (which was written by echicken)..   
      
   Nightfox   
      
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