Subj : Re: Import/Export
To   : mark lewis
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Sat Aug 19 2017 12:19:08

Hi mark,

On 2017-08-18 19:54:52, you wrote to me:

 WV>> Yours and Pauls are slightly different in format. Yours is different
 WV>> enough to not be correctly processed by the import function of
 WV>> FConfig. FConfig expects lines defining a Jam area to start with a '!'
 WV>> character followed directly by the filename. If there's no '!'
 WV>> character as the first character on the line, it reads it as a hudson
 WV>> message base area, where the first field is the board number. So you
 WV>> should be able to edit your file to get it imported by FConfig. One
 WV>> other quirk to consider: it ignores the first line of the file.

 ml> ignoring that first line isn't really a quirk... the first line(s) are
 ml> generally comment lines... most of the time the contain information about
 ml> who/what built the file...

Indeed "most of the time", because Pauls areas.bbs first line was a regular 
line with an area definition...

 ml> those comment lines start with a semicolon and there can be additional
 ml> comment lines further inside the document but most processors will not
 ml> keep them if they rewrite the file...

 ml> what i'm trying to say is that the only lines that should be being skipped
 ml> are those starting with a semicolon...

FConfig also skips lines starting with a semicolon...

Bye, Wilfred.

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