mlF> yeah, i've always done these chores manually and written them off as
 mlF> part of the task of setting up and configuring a system... once it
 mlF> is done, that's another task removed from the TODO list ;)

I have always done things the same way but when I was given an entire bbs 
collection of CDs things changed...:)

 mlF> one possibility might be to install an older RA that addrom works
 mlF> with and then convert those file areas database files up to 2.6's
 mlF> format... i don't know if that would work well, though... i would
 mlF> attempt it in another set of directories well away from your install
 mlF> you are working on now... and make sure that you don't have any RA
 mlF> environment variables pointing to your final installation...

I did try that trick but for some reason areas created by addrom became 
corrupted after the upgrade.  I'm not sure exactly why....


If only RA came with a command-line utility for adding areas :)

Thanks bud

Grant

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