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-=> Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-

 DM>   Re: Re: Badareas.lst location
 DM>   By: Gamgee to Digital Man on Thu Sep 25 2025 01:51 pm

 >  DM> Yes in theory, SCFG could read the sbbsecho.ini file to find whatever
 >  DM> path/filename the sysop chose to name that file. However, a sysop can
 >  DM> create/use multiple sbbsecho configuration files (they don't have to be
 >  DM> ctrl/sbbsecho.ini), so SCFG wouldn't magically know how to find any
 >  DM> other non-default SBBSecho config files.

 > That seems a pretty niche use-case - I'd guess that VERY few sysops are
 > using multiple sbbsecho.ini files.  If somebody *was*, then yes I could
 > see how they might need to type in a new value in the input dialog to
 > import that badareas.lst into SCFG.  But for the other 99% ...?  To be
 > fair - I see ZERO reason to change it from the default location anyway.

 DM> If a sysop had multiple sbbsecho config files and they all used the
 DM> default badareas.lst file path (which seems unlikely), then the sysop
 DM> would not need to type in a new value if/when importing that
 DM> badareas.lst file into SCFG. I only mentioned the sbbsecho.ini file
 DM> issue because it means that desired/expected behavior is that the bad
 DM> area file path is pulled from that file automatically, but there's
 DM> really no way for SCFG to know what sbbsecho config file path/filename
 DM> that SBBSecho is *actually* using.

Okay, understood, thanks.

 > I guess my question then is - does the location specified in
 > sbbsecho.ini for the badareas.lst file actually make that file get
 > created/updated in the location specified?

 DM> Yes.

Roger that.

 > Or will it always go to ../data ?

 DM> No, the path/filename set in sbbsecho.ini is what SBBSecho (or at least
 DM> the instance that runs with that config file) will update/write when
 DM> messages for bad area-tags are received.

Very good, thank you for the explanation/clarification.



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