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Hey Siggi!
On Mon, Feb 03 2025 05:46:40 -0600, you wrote:
>>> Example:
>>> AreaName1 ...... Description
>>> AreaName123 ...... Description
>>> ...
Following up on this, I just did an areafix request from my BBS
to my HPT hub, and it looks like your example above is incorrect.
What I see here on a 80 character wide terminal is basically a
left justified areatag with a whitespace after, then right justified
descriptions, in quotes, with a whitespace before the open quote, then periods in
between them:
*S AFTERSHOCK .......................... "Aftershock Android Client Support"
*S ALL-POLITICS ....................................... "Politics Unlimited"
*S ALLFIX_FILE ........................... "Allfix File Announce Conference"
...
So there is definitely some formatting going on, it`s just not what
WinPoint needs.. correct?
Is your areafix response different from mine? If so, maybe there
were some formatting changes of this output between 2020 and 2024 (our
hpt version differences in years).
> I always compare with FastEcho and Filescan, which both send an
> ordered list as an email, always with the same decorum between area
> and description. And is then integrated into WinPoint with 2-3 clicks
> ;-)
HPT also seems to send an ordered list via netmail. It`s just not
the same order that FastEcho, Filescan, or WinPoint use. I see why you
are asking this, but there are other methods to achieve the list you
want:
If I remember right, some (or all) of these scripts may even come
with the husky sources, or at least might have at one time; I`ve had
them for a long time, so I don`t remember ;):
fconf2na.pl - This one is probably what you`re looking for. That
should change your fidoconf `areas` file to a FIDONET.NA format, which I
*think* would produce what you`re looking for.
Then there are others (fconf2aquaed, fconf2areasbbs.pl, fconf2binkd,
fconf2fidogate, fconf2golded, fconf2msged, fconf2squish, fconf2tornado, fecfg2fconf,
etc).
> Then my query has been answered, thank you.
I honestly don`t think copy/pasting a netmailed areafix response is
the proper way to go about this, even though with some other tossers
you are able to do that with. All of the above scripts I mentioned do
exactly what you`re looking for, and for multiple formats (FIDONET.NA is
probably one of the most common, though, and might even be what FastEcho,
Filescan, and WinPoint are based on).
In case you don`t see it in the sources, give this a shot and
let me know how it goes:
https://pharcyde.org/fconf2na.pl
Regards,
Nick
... He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
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