Subj : Re: mYSTIC+GOLDED
To   : David Gonzalez
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Sat Nov 16 2024 08:59 pm

Hello David,

On Sun, Nov 17 2024 01:17:33 -0600, you wrote:

> * I've tied exporting areas.bbs from Mystic and have GoldED+ read them and no luck.
> * Export goldareas.txt but when I try to include it it doesn't work, so my
> workaround is to copy the AREADEFs from goldareas.cfg into my main golded.cfg
> and that works, but that's PITA.

While it's a PITA, it's the only way to be able to use the AREASEP and some other keywords to actually separate your areas by network or by whatever you define with the AREALISTSORT keyword.

> * I alos tried JAMPATH d:\bbs\mystic\msgs\, didn't work either.

JAMPATH is for the location of your netmail.jam and echomail.jam files that are read between golded and your tosser. That has really nothing to do with what you're looking for. Those semaphore files (which you may eventually want to utilize) tell the tosser what areas you've actually wrote messages and/or netmails in so that it only scans those areas, rather than scanning all areas every time.

> What am I doing wrong?, how can I integrated Mystic and Golded without so
> much manual intervention?.

golded\manuals\gold_ref.txt will be your new best friend. :)

For the easiest way, take a look at the AREAFILE keyword. In your case, you may want to try:

AREAFILE AREASBBS d:\path\to\areas.bbs

However, you may not like this method as I don't believe it adds the area descriptions. There may be other ways, though.. I just don't know them. I've always used AREADEF, AREASEP, AREALISTSORT, etc. in combination to make things look a lot better.

Hope that helps!

Regards,
Nick

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