RW>Good morning all.  I have a quick question here...

RW>How does one import a BACKBONE.NA-style message listing into PCBoard
RW>so that he does not have to type in all the areas in by hand?

RW>TIA!

PCBoard comes with a utility called FIDOYTIL.EXE .  It is menu driven or
you can use the command line:

To use the command line interface, enter PCBFUTIL with no command line
arguments.O>fidoutil /?

  /REPORT      Compile Fido activity report from all caller logs.
  /CONVERT     Convert Fido configuration files from version 2 to 
version 3.

  /FIDONET     Process FIDONET.NA style file.
    /START:xxx                  Conference number to start with.
    /TEMPLATE:xxx               Template conference number.
    /INDEX                      Build index files.
    /MSGS:d:\pcb\main\msgs      Path to message subdirectory.
    /FIMPORT:d:\pcb\fidonet.na  Path to FIDONET.NA type file.
    /SETNAMES                   Overwrite existing conferenfce names.
    /USETAG                     Use fidonet areatag for conference name.
    /USEDESC                    Use fidonet description for conference 
name.

  /PASSTHRU    Set up passthru areas.
    /FIMPORT:d:\pcb\passthru.na Path to passthru NA type file.

  /MAINT       Perform Fido System Maintenance
   /DUPES      Remove Duplicate Fido Areas.
   /INACTIVE   Remove Inactive  Fido Areas.
     /DAYS     Number of days to consider a conference inactive.
   /NOPROMPT   Supress Promting before removing conference.

   /PACKMSG:xx Delete SENT MSG files older than xx days.

  /AREASBBS    Setup existing areas using an AREAS.BBS type file
   /FILE:file  Name/Location of areas.bbs file



Jeff

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