Subj : %HELP ? To : Nicholas Boel From : mark lewis Date : Sat Jan 21 2017 09:24 am On 2017 Jan 21 07:34:38, you wrote to me: 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, ml>> why would i look in there? it isn't a misc file... a document or ml>> config file, sure but not misc... NB> Sysop documentation happens to be in the "doc" subdirectory. NB> Configuration files happen to be in the "config" subdirectory. And NB> since you've already gone through both of those after install, i did not... i didn't go through them until i went looking for the areafix help file... NB> why not check out the "misc" directory? I would definitely consider NB> areafix.hlp/filefix.hlp a miscellaneous file. It's not sysop NB> documentation so I wouldn't put it with the other sysop documentation NB> in the "doc" directory, it's a document for the user, to be placed NB> wherever you want it to be, hence a "misc" file. i consider the help files to be documentation because they are the documentation for the remote systems to use when requesting help for areafix and filefix... NB> And if I remember right, you have to actually specify the location of NB> the areafix.hlp/filefix.hlp in your robots sections in the main NB> fidoconfig file, which means it's not hardcoded and can be located NB> anywhere, hence the miscellaneous part. *shrug* i think there is that but if make install places the sample configs then it can also place the help files *shrug* NB>>> then I suspect PEBCAK rather than the program itself. Where would NB>>> you expect it to be otherwise? ml>> after running make install i would expect to find it installed along ml>> with the binaries and sample configs... but that's not what happened ml>> for either of the help files or the sample configs... i had to find a ml>> way to generate a config file to even get started... in that case i ml>> found and used fidoInst by Zano and butchered that config into my ml>> working copy... NB> I can agree with the config files. After 'make install' some default NB> templates should probably be put into a proper place, since the config NB> directory is specified in huskymak.cfg for a reason. But this doesn't NB> happen. NB> The code is freely available to do whatever you want with it, though. you and i are a lot alike in many respects, nick... like you, i'm not a 'make' or 'c' guru... NB>>> And now to try to bring us back to the original topic in the NB>>> DBRIDGE echo, It was requested that DB have a help screen for NB>>> users trying to access Areafix, and now it does as of the latest NB>>> update. I'd call that a success! ml>> it is a success... no one is disputing that :) NB> Instead of pointing that out, the first things mentioned after the fact was NB> what DB's areafix was lacking compared to other tosser's areafixes. Nick NB> has already stated he's not going to add in all the fluff that other NB> tossers have added in over the years, so why beat a dead horse? i didn't do that pointing... someone else did so don't include me in it... )\/(ark Always Mount a Scratch Monkey Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong... .... Catatonic - Italian beverage most preferred by cats --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .