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to: mark lewis
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2017-08-19 22:48:08
subject: Re: Import/Export

Hi mark,

On 2017-08-19 13:54:50, you wrote to me:

 WV>> Indeed "most of the time", because Pauls areas.bbs
first line was a
 WV>> regular line with an area definition...

(I mixed up the two, it was the one from Nicolas)

 ml> yeah, that's why i said that AREAS.BBS processors should skip comment
 ml> lines and not assume things :wink: :wink:

After I'd seen the source, I realised there is some room for improvenment! ;)

 WV>> FConfig also skips lines starting with a semicolon...

 ml> that's a GoodThing but it should not just blindly skip the first
 ml> line... that's a BadThing... FConfig is breaking even at
this point ;)

Indeed. It is a bit of luck that it reads the one from Paul, which starts
with the following lines:

; Generated by CrashExport 1.0
; Sun Nov 13 11:39:21 2016

Default origin ! Paul Quinn

The ones created by FMail start with:

2:280/464 ! Wilfred van Velzen
; Created by FConfig-W32-2.0.1.2 - Fri Aug 11 13:43:14 2017

That's why it skips the first line...


Bye, Wilfred.

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