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to: Andrew Leary
from: Vince Coen
date: 2009-09-19 14:05:44
subject: queries regarding files forwarding

Hello Andrew!

14 Sep 09 05:13, you wrote to Robert Wolfe:

 AL> Hello Robert!

 AL> Saturday September 12 2009 11:03, Robert Wolfe wrote to Vince Coen:

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

Yep that is what I did when first setting up mbse on version 0.32 or so but 
this is for a downlink running sbbs.

I do have proftpd avail but when testing it did not allow anonymous users but 
only registered Linux users (and not bbs users). Have not found out why yet.

Vince

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