Subj : Create message bases
To   : Marceline Jones
From : andrew clarke
Date : Fri Feb 26 2021 01:34:32

On 2021-02-21 16:43:00, Marceline Jones (1:103/705) wrote to ALL:

 MJ> Can GoldEd create message areas ? or do I need to create them using a
 MJ> BBS first before I can edit them with GoldEd ?

Other people have answered this already, but something to note is GoldED won't create subdirectories for you.

Suppose you have this in GOLDED.CFG:

AreaDef JAMAREA "My JAM echo" 0 echo JAM c:\msg\jam\jamarea

If either c:\msg or c:\msg\jam don't exist, GoldED won't create them, and will possibly crash with a terse error. Worse, it does this after you save the message you just wrote.

Or at least that's been my experience.

Concievably there's now a config setting to enable automatic subdirectory creation. Or it would be nice if there was.

 MJ> (I am using GoldED/386 3.00.Beta3).

If my history is correct that's circa 1997.

Beware of any Y2K bugs with the old versions. :)

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