Subj : Importing Message Areas
To   : MRO
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Apr 17 2026 10:01 pm

  Re: Importing Message Areas
  By: MRO to Digital Man on Fri Apr 17 2026 08:09 pm

 >   Re: Importing Message Areas
 >   By: Digital Man to MRO on Thu Apr 16 2026 10:18 am
 >
 >  >  > internal code prefix, access requirements and other options.
 >
 >  >  > you can't do that with the current formats that are left over, right?
 >
 >  > Nope, but you can by simply copy/pasting the msgs.ini entries (which
 >  > don't have the same ordering and extensibility issues that the
 >  > subs.txt entries did).
 >
 >
 > i could do that or something else, but being able to export/export subs.txt
 > was useful for people that ran msg networks or sysops who want to carry
 > them.
 >
 > I never had any problem with the subs.txt format and i used it a lot over
 > the years. i like the newer .ini formats for things in most cases, but  i'm
 > surprised you ripped that out.

subs.txt and dirs.txt were missing newer sub-board/directory fields and the 
format was kind of dumb (like all door drop file formats). I'll add some better 
import/export formats that'll serve the same purpose, but better.
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