Re: Files and Descriptions
  By: Psi-Jack to Digital Man on Thu Jul 18 2019 09:01 pm

 >   Re: Files and Descriptions
 >   By: Digital Man to Psi-Jack on Thu Jul 18 2019 04:10 pm
 >
 >  >> So, I had an issue when I migrated my BBS from one server to another,
 >  >> when I re-added all the files using addfiles, all the files'
 >  >> descriptions never got the long description as from the FILE_ID.DIZ,
 >  >> so I have a lot of one-line descriptions all crumpled up.
 >
 >  >> I'm trying to fix this, and would like to know how the best means to
 >  >> do this would be so I can get them all done properly. This is is a
 >  >> current build of Synchronet 3.17 (CVS) for Linux.
 >
 >  DM> There were bugs w/DIZ importing in addfiles revs 1.55 through 1.57, now
 >  DM> fixed.
 >
 > Thank you so much for helping with this. When I have time, I may end up
 > trying to see what I can do to make a javascript solution for this to
 > ultimately replace addfiles.c with addfiles.js. At least start with it,
 > anyway. 

Until there's a FileBase object (similar to the JS MsgBase object), a solution
in pure JS probably isn't that practical (not impossible, just not practical).
Otherwise, I'd have already done it I think. :-)

                                            digital man

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