Subj : %HELP ?
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Jan 18 2017 08:13 pm


 On 2017 Jan 18 17:48:06, you wrote to Nick Andre:

 NA>> and D'Bridge was published at a time before this was proposed. I
 NA>> believe Greg Dawson designed the original specification.

 WV> I have this one saved:

 WV>                               AreaFix v1.30 User Guide
 WV>                           originally by Jeffrey J. Nonken

 WV> That's used by Bjorn. He called it the original AreaFix.

it was that at one time areafix was a separate program from the tosser and 
relied on the tosser's comfig files to perform its job... then some tosser 
authors integrated areafix directly into their programs...

 WV> It works about the same as d'Bridge with options (like -R -L and -Q)
 WV> on the command line after the password.

yup.. that's the really old-school way and it is quite limited as well...

 NA>> There are quite a few legacy tossers that do not conform to this
 NA>> proposal.

 WV> I know BBBS is a bit different, but I have no link with a BBBS system,
 WV> so I don't know the details.

BBBS uses a regex format and it does both file and message areas all in one... 
there is a way to do only messages or only file areas but just a plain

  +foo

or such can easily result in you getting file areas (TICs) you weren't looking 
for...

 WV> But besides those above I don't know any that don't conform more or
 WV> less to the method described in the fsc proposal.

such as it is, it is a good attempt... hopefully it won't be used like other 
proposals and standards to try to beat others into some sort of submission...

)\/(ark

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