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echo: locsysop
to: Roy Mcneill
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1994-04-02 10:16:14
subject: password

BL>> I have sent a netmail to areafix to mark the extra areas, but God
 BL>> only knows if I did it right.

 PE>> You left a space between "-" and "CDROM". 
Don't do it again!

 RS>> Thats what I love about these point setups, such precision software,
 RS>> so automatic, no sysop intervention required, the code is so smart |-)

You should have given the specs to the author.  I haven't actually read the
doco myself, but it sounds like you can put multiple area names separated
by spaces.  If you didn't want that, you should have said so!  It's easy
enough to program either way.

 PE>> Also, your messages to PUBLIC_DOMAIN and AUST_AVTECH didn't work
 PE>> because the names have been truncated.

 RS>> Ditto.

 PE>> You have to manually fix your control.dat.

 RS>> How fucking medieval |-)

 RM> Hi Paul - for once I agree with Rod... The above examples are
 RM> typical. Why is point software so ridiculously unfriendly?

Wake up Roy, it's QWK that's truncating the area names.  BFN.

Paul

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