Subj : Format of FILES.BBS
To   : Paul Emmons
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 12:37 am

  Re: Format of FILES.BBS
  By: Paul Emmons to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Sep 16 2005 08:00 am

 > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
 > 
 > I'm writing a Perl program to help put file areas together for my planned Sy
 > from a database of the contents of numerous shareware compact discs.  I am c
 > of FILES.BBS (which it would write)  for the purposes of the utility ADDFILE
 > 
 > Can it consist of lines beginning with filename.ext and continuing with a si
 > description line up to 58 characters (with no other data such as file size o

Yes.

 > Must additional description lines also be no longer than 58 characters each?

For cosmetic purposes, they shouldn't.

 > If there is a file size field (with location specified in the size_off argum
 > for?

It's not.

                                                  digital man

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