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║ GT-HELP ║ SYSOP.BBS - All the Prompts which GT displays.
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    │ The SYSOP.BBS file is an essential file which should only be edited │
    │ with extreme care.                                                  │
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    The first three lines of this file benefit from editing - but be sure
    that you do not allow your editor to word wrap any line.  These examples 
    are from my board:

    1st line:       If you answer a caller that pages you, GT will 
                    display the caller's name followed by this line.

                    ", here is the Sysop (&Harry Green~) . . ."

    2nd line:       Asking the caller's location at first log on.  
    
                    Note that if you make this much longer, GT won't 
                    leave enough space to answer the question.  But you 
                    somehow need to give them the impression they need 
                    to answer TWO words.

                    "From (Town [*and*] County (or City/State) ?"

    3rd line:       GT uses this name when addressing mail entered as a
                    Message to Sysop :

                    "Harry Green"


    There is nothing else in this file that you NEED to change (unless you
    are working in a foreign language) but you can do so if you wish.  If
    in doubt, leave it alone - and always keep the original to fall back if
    necessary.

    Most of the prompts which GT displays in host mode are configurable via
    this file, but always bear in mind that :

        a)  In most cases, GT operates by response characters which are 
            *not* configurable.  So if a line is presently 
            
                "[S]can [T]hread [Q]uit"

            then it would make little sense to edit this line in any way 
            that did not involve the characters S, T and Q.
            
        b)  Each line of the file represents one prompt.  The order of the
            lines is very important.

        c)  As in "line 2" above, there may be length limitations on 
            some of the prompts, and where embedded fields are involved 
            you may need to experiment to determine whether the position 
            of the field can be changed.

            Note:   individual prompts can be *displayed* on  2 or more
                    lines - a return is generated by coding \r in the text.


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│ Colours │
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    Colours can be defined using special colour codes which are 
    described in the next edit window.  Note in particular that these 
    involve some special characters :

        $   &   [   ]   ~           

    If you need to callers to *see* any of those characters, you should
    precede them with % to prevent them from being interpreted as colour
    controls.  If you need callers to see the % sign, you should use two 
    of them, ie %%

    There is NO sysop.cbs file - colours can *only* be described using
    these special symbols.


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│ Variables │
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    Where a line contains more than one variable, you will not be able to
    change the order in which the variables appear.

    A variable is substituted wherever the line contains :

        %d, %u, %ld     integer values
        %c              a single character value
        %s              a string (text) value

        \r              a carriage return

   
