On 2019 Jul 10 18:50:54, you wrote to Mike Miller:

 >> I'm a little late replying to this, but I do use golded with
 >> synchronet, and all I have to do is point to my sbbs directory. If I
 >> remember, when I get home (I'm on vacation right now) I'll post the
 >> config lines required to make it work. It can be a little buggy, but it
 >> works for the most part.

 JS> I tried various Areafile possibilities but either Golded or SBBS were
 JS> not reading or expressing the needed data.

it is golded not reading all the data properly... the patches provided to add
SBBS to golded don't cover adding config file processing... they only provide
proper access to the message bases themselves...

 JS> Once I specified all the areas manually using the the Areadef keyword
 JS> and specified SMB as the area type. Then Golded could see and use the
 JS> configured message areas.

yes, this is currently the only way for golded to use SBBS message bases...

)\/(ark

And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was
so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected
up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing
the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn
it off.
... "I assume" makes an ass out of u and me.
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