Hi Nicholas,

On 2017-08-18 22:00:09, I wrote to you:

 NB>> and both Windows and Linux paths The one that's in your inbound is
 NB>> Linux paths, which can easily be copy/replaced to Windows format.

 WvV> I'll have a look...

Yours and Pauls are slightly different in format. Yours is different enough to
not be correctly processed by the import function of FConfig.
FConfig expects lines defining a Jam area to start with a '!' character
followed directly by the filename. If there's no '!' character as the first
character on the line, it reads it as a hudson message base area, where the
first field is the board number.
So you should be able to edit your file to get it imported by FConfig.
One other quirk to consider: it ignores the first line of the file.

I did a little google search for '"areas.bbs" format'. I didn't find much, but
what I found suggests that every piece of software using it, has it's own ideas
 about the little details.

The golded document: goldref.txt, says this about it:

        AreasBBS

            GoldED is can handle a wide variety of AREAS.BBS type files. It
            can read and distinguish between the old CONFMAIL style with paths
            for *.MSG areas, the Hudson/Goldbase style with board numbers, the
            Squish style with "$basename" and the JAM style with "!basename".

So I guess FConfig supports Hudson and JAM style.

Bye, Wilfred.

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