bntext(5)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, this is bntext — the manual for the lil text files that feed your Unix Battle.net daemon all its messages ✨

the actual files are bnmotd.txt, bnnews.txt and bnissue.txt 🌸

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, and it's genuinely so cute. bnmotd.txt holds the text that bnetd(1) shows off when people first log into the server 👑 first impressions, main character energy, etc.

then bnnews.txt is the one that pops up when someone runs the /news chat command 📰✨

and the files themselves? just raw text, but with printf-style formatting escapes sprinkled through them like glitter. every line of a file can start with a type formatter from this list 🎀:

• %B — use the broadcast attribute (???).
• %C — execute the line as if the user typed it in as a command 👀 like, actually runs it.
• %E — use the error attribute (red). red red red 🚨
• %I — use the info attribute (yellow). this one is the same was %W.
• %M — normal chat message (white). it'll show up looking like the user said it 💬
• %T — emote chat message (???). this one also shows up like the user said it 🙈
• %W — use the warning attribute (yellow). this is the same was %I.

and within a line, you can drop in any of these format formatters 💅:

• %% — expands to a literal percent sign (%). classic escape behaviour, love that for us.
• %a — expands to the number of accounts on the server 🔢
• %c — expands to the number of channels on the server. this counts all permanent channels and all the current temporary ones 🌈
• %g — expands to the number of games on the server. this counts both public and private (passworded) games 🎮
• %h — expands to the hostname of the server (as returned by gethostname(2)) 🖥️
• %i — expands to this user's account ID number, formatted with a leading pound (#) sign and leading zeros 💜
• %l — expands to this user's current chat name, which is usually the same
• %r — expands to the IP of the remote machine (the client) 🌐
• %t — expands to the four character client tag 🏷️
• %u — expands to the number of users logged into the server 👯
• %v — expands to the version number of the server ⭐

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• bnetd(1)

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Ross Combs (ross@bnetd.org) — thank you for your service, legend 💖

okay that's the whole page!! sending you the biggest hugs, this one is from the File Formats Manual, version bntext(5), dated 2 August, 2001 🎀✨ go forth and configure your daemon messages, bestie 💅