Subj : %HELP ? To : Nicholas Boel From : mark lewis Date : Fri Jan 20 2017 04:21 pm On 2017 Jan 20 10:45:58, you wrote to me: 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 ml>> they can make it available for their links... i hunted and hunted for ml>> it... finally found it after two or three days... it really is a ml>> GoodThing when areafix help texts are simple text files that can ml>> be referenced when needed instead of being hardcoded into the ml>> programs... NB> I think he was referring to the fact that you use wildcards in your NB> *fix requests for the Husky tools (ie: [+]*/-* to subscribe to all NB> echos available, rather than D'Bridge and SBBSecho using [+]ALL/-ALL). NB> Both ways probably match other software, but since Mark was used to DB NB> and possibly SBBSecho, it was a different scenario for him NB> specifically. he might have been... i was just pointing out that by default, at least on linux systems when building from the sources, the areafix help is hard to find... NB> If it took you two or three days to search for and find the "misc" NB> directory under HPT's (and HTICK's for that matter) root directory, why would i look in there? it isn't a misc file... a document or config file, sure but not misc... NB> then I suspect PEBCAK rather than the program itself. Where would you NB> expect it to be otherwise? after running make install i would expect to find it installed along with the binaries and sample configs... but that's not what happened for either of the help files or the sample configs... i had to find a way to generate a config file to even get started... in that case i found and used fidoInst by Zano and butchered that config into my working copy... NB> And now to try to bring us back to the original topic in the DBRIDGE NB> echo, It was requested that DB have a help screen for users trying to NB> access Areafix, and now it does as of the latest update. I'd call that NB> a success! it is a success... no one is disputing that :) )\/(ark Always Mount a Scratch Monkey Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong... .... Deja Stew: leftovers. --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .