Subj : %HELP ?
To   : mark lewis
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Fri Jan 20 2017 10:45 am

Hello mark,

On Fri Jan 20 2017 09:12:38, mark lewis wrote to Mark Hofmann:

 MH>> I had never been connected to an hpt system until recently, and
 MH>> didn't know the syntax to subscribe to all echos.

 ml> the worst part is for hpt operators to even find the help text so they
 ml> can make it available for their links... i hunted and hunted for it...
 ml> finally found it after two or three days... it really is a
 ml> GoodThing<tm> when areafix help texts are simple text files that can
 ml> be referenced when needed instead of being hardcoded into the
 ml> programs...

I think he was referring to the fact that you use wildcards in your *fix 
requests for the Husky tools (ie: [+]*/-* to subscribe to all echos available, 
rather than D'Bridge and SBBSecho using [+]ALL/-ALL). Both ways probably match 
other software, but since Mark was used to DB and possibly SBBSecho, it was a 
different scenario for him specifically.

If it took you two or three days to search for and find the "misc" directory 
under HPT's (and HTICK's for that matter) root directory, then I suspect PEBCAK 
rather than the program itself. Where would you expect it to be otherwise?

And now to try to bring us back to the original topic in the DBRIDGE echo, It 
was requested that DB have a help screen for users trying to access Areafix, 
and now it does as of the latest update. I'd call that a success!

Regards,
Nick

.... "Не знаю. Я здесь только работаю."
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