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to: Robert Wolfe
from: Andrew Leary
date: 2009-09-14 05:13:08
subject: queries regarding files forwarding

Hello Robert!

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 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.

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

Regards,

Andrew

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