On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Tom De Puysseleyr wrote to mark lewis:

 TDP>> I'm trying to have Allfix create new fileecho's in EleBBS. This
 TDP>> works when an area is automatically created using the mask which
 TDP>> is defined in the filegroups. But when I manually enter a new
 TDP>> fileecho in asetup then this doesn't seem to create anything in
 TDP>> EleBBS. I would assume that it's supposed to create it in elebbs
 TDP>> too?

 ml> no... if you create them in allfix manually, then it would seem to be
 ml> that you would also manually create them in the bbs software... the
 ml> same thing comes for updating one's FREQ directories list for mailers
 ml> or FREQ processors to use so they know what directories to look in for
 ml> FREQs...

 TDP> And is that on purpose?

yes as far as i know... it has always been that way...

 TDP> I mean, I don't know about the freq things, 

FREQs are file requests... inbound FREQs have to be processed by some software
that knows where to look for the file(s) being requested so one must maintain
a list of directories that others are allowed to FREQ from... there is also a
list of "magic names" where one can FREQ one specific name and get the latest
file for that name...

  eg: nodelist -> nodelist.z12

where nodelist.z12 is changed in the list every time a new nodelist.z?? file
is received...

 TDP> but the functions for creating the areas in the bbs software 
 TDP> already exist in the source, so why not run them when an area is 
 TDP> manually created (could be a setting somewhere)?

because you may be setting up an area that you do not want on the BBS...

 TDP> Same thing for using the import fuction to import a filebone.na 
 TDP> file...

yeah, i don't know who started that but the importation of the *.NA files was
only to import the ares's description into the configs... using the *.NA files
to create all of one's file and message areas is not really a good idea for
various reasons... but it has been done and others are copying it :/

)\/(ark

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