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  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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