Hello Wilfred,

On Fri Aug 18 2017 22:27:12, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 WvV>> I'll have a look...

 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 hudson
 WV> message base area, where the first field is the board number. So you
 WV> should be able to edit your file to get it imported by FConfig. One
 WV> other quirk to consider: it ignores the first line of the file.

Thanks. This all seemed to do the trick, including adding a comment at the top
of the file since it's ignored.

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

Exactly! For example, Synchronet doesn't use JAM or Hudson, so some other
format was probably invented there too.

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

 WV>         AreasBBS

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

While Golded may handle a wide variety for import, the only thing I could get
it to export was what I gave to you. It didn't include any "!" even though
every area defined in fidoconfig was set to JAM.

 WV> So I guess FConfig supports Hudson and JAM style.

Ok. Looks like I learned something new today! 

Regards,
Nick

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