On 2017 Aug 19 12:19:08, you wrote to me:

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

 ml>> ignoring that first line isn't really a quirk... the first line(s)
 ml>> are generally comment lines... most of the time the contain
 ml>> information about who/what built the file...

 WV> Indeed "most of the time", because Pauls areas.bbs first line was a
 WV> regular line with an area definition...

yeah, that's why i said that AREAS.BBS processors should skip comment lines and
 not assume things :wink: :wink:

 ml>> those comment lines start with a semicolon and there can be
 ml>> additional comment lines further inside the document but most
 ml>> processors will not keep them if they rewrite the file...

 ml>> what i'm trying to say is that the only lines that should be being
 ml>> skipped are those starting with a semicolon...

 WV> FConfig also skips lines starting with a semicolon...

that's a GoodThing<tm> but it should not just blindly skip the first line...
that's a BadThing<tm>... FConfig is breaking even at this point 

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