Subj : Import/Export To : Wilfred van Velzen From : mark lewis Date : Sat Aug 19 2017 13:54:50 On 2017 Aug 19 12:19:08, 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 WV>>> hudson message base area, where the first field is the board number. WV>>> So you should be able to edit your file to get it imported by WV>>> FConfig. One other quirk to consider: it ignores the first line of WV>>> the file. ml>> ignoring that first line isn't really a quirk... the first line(s) ml>> are generally comment lines... most of the time the contain ml>> information about who/what built the file... WV> Indeed "most of the time", because Pauls areas.bbs first line was a WV> regular line with an area definition... yeah, that's why i said that AREAS.BBS processors should skip comment lines and not assume things :wink: :wink: ml>> those comment lines start with a semicolon and there can be ml>> additional comment lines further inside the document but most ml>> processors will not keep them if they rewrite the file... ml>> what i'm trying to say is that the only lines that should be being ml>> skipped are those starting with a semicolon... WV> FConfig also skips lines starting with a semicolon... that's a GoodThing but it should not just blindly skip the first line... that's a BadThing... FConfig is breaking even at this point ;) )\/(ark Always Mount a Scratch Monkey Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong... .... Who is General Failure and why's he reading my hard disk? --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .