Hello Andrew!

Mon Sep 14 2009, Andrew Leary wrote to Robert Wolfe:

 RW>> Vince, a rescan of file areas might also be CPU-intensive as well.
 RW>> Keep in mind that not all BBSes are Internet-connected as well.  Also,
 RW>> other authors that write TIC processors would most likely have to
 RW>> follow suit as well.  IMO, I think that doing a file area rescan
 RW>> function would be more trouble than it's worth.  Too many variables to
 RW>> even name or list here.

 AL>Probably it would be easiest just to FTP or FREQ all of the files 
 AL>(including FILES.BBS), then drop them into the MBSE file areas 
 AL>directory and use mbfile to import them into the BBS file database.  
 AL>This is actually what I'm working on now, to get all of the files from 
 AL>my old BBS into MBSE.

Yes, this is the best way of import files into MBSE from another system or
as new files areas.
Let say you have about 3x600 files + 3 files.bbs files for the areas to
import, have the files put in 3 directories like .../mbse/lordigms ../tlord
../wtlord, as mbse user cd into each directory and run mbfile im, and now
leave the computer it will take a while now by mbse is importig the files
by the files.bbs and when done mbse too have made a new files.bbs for
mbsebbs use.
When this is done will the files still be in the 3 directories so can they
either be deleted from there or be put for backup.


  Take care,
            Gert

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