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  • Text.dat Question #1234

    From The Millionaire@the.millionaire@vert.synchro.net.remove-766-this to Digital Man on Thu Sep 10 21:11:56 2020
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    To: Digital Man
    Are you planning to replace the colours in text.dat with /x01 codes instead?

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  • From Digital Man@digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-me1-this to The Millionaire on Thu Sep 10 21:41:33 2020
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    Re: Text.dat Question #1234
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Thu Sep 10 2020 09:11 pm

    Are you planning to replace the colours in text.dat with /x01 codes instead?

    If you're asking if I'm going to replace the Ctrl-A character escape sequences (\1) in the text.dat file, the answer is: I have no reason or plan to do that.

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  • From The Millionaire@the.millionaire@vert.synchro.net.remove-f8x-this to Digital Man on Fri Sep 11 15:55:56 2020
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    Re: Text.dat Question #1234
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Thu Sep 10 2020 09:11 pm

    If you're asking if I'm going to replace the Ctrl-A character escape sequences (\1) in the text.dat file, the answer is: I have no reason or plan to do that.

    digital man

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    Well you replaced it in the .src and .js files so just thought text.dat as well.

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  • From Digital Man@digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-1eq-this to The Millionaire on Fri Sep 11 18:17:47 2020
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    To: The Millionaire
    Re: Text.dat Question #1234
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Fri Sep 11 2020 03:55 pm


    Re: Text.dat Question #1234
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Thu Sep 10 2020 09:11 pm

    If you're asking if I'm going to replace the Ctrl-A character escape sequences (\1) in the text.dat file, the answer is: I have no reason or plan to do that.

    Well you replaced it in the .src and .js files so just thought text.dat as well.

    I replaced literal Ctrl-A characters in the .src files with "\1" (the escape sequence) so that those files could be edited with any-old text editor with any problems. Literal Ctrl-A characters have not been used in the text.dat file since 2013.

    I replaced the "\1" escape sequence in (many) JavaScript modules because that escape notation (technically, an octal number) is deprecated in JavaScript and generates errors when "strict mode" is enabled. So I replace "\1" with "\x01" as I see them (or enable "strict mode") when editing existing .js files.


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