Hi Benny,

>> In AppleMac FDN:

>> Area IPAD         0     !     MAC: IPAD development and utilities

> wish there was an perl script to use this from husky so it can autoupdate
> forward file area files based on posting here, sayed that i dont know what
> linux tools supporting it, but if someone could tell me i would appricate it

That could be a nice idea.. but I don't always remember to post the changes
here .  I try to do it though.

When we first started fidonet's file distribution it was called the
"Filebone", Keven Snively was the first person to  use the Raid
format you still see in FileGate.zxx.

He had instructions in his original document, Filebone.na, on how to update
George Peace's RAID automatically (RAID was used to announce new files). 
Here, Keven was talking about the format of the filebone.na file (area
tagname  [etc.]):

% This format is based on the TIC and RAID programs.  Indeed, you can directly
% use this file as part of your RAID config file.  For example, the following
% DOS command could be used to create your new RAID.CFG file from the weekly
% FILEBONE.NA file along with prefix and suffix files (RAID.BEG and RAID.END)
% containing your personal configuration information:
%
%     Copy  RAID.BEG + FILEBONE.NA + RAID.END  RAID.CFG
%
%


Simple really :)

Now, something like that would work with BBBS's external.bbb eh.. kind of..
:) When people started using Allfix and FileMngr which were gui programs we
stopped doing the above.

Take care,
Janis

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