Hi! Nicholas,

On Thu, 07 Sep 17, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> It is how FE does that sort of thing.

 NB> Is that some sort of separate option or setting? I can only
 NB> seem to recall areatag-esque filenames created by FastEcho
 NB> when I used it some ages ago. At least I don't remember any
 NB> tosser I've ever used making filenames like that by
 NB> default.

Nothing special other than only certain up/down/sideways-linked systems can
be given access to the function.  There is a 'perhaps', maybe, if it does
the hash when there ain't no backbone-type of tag descriptor file.[shrug] 
Just browsing the doco 5 mins ago, I couldn't see anything related to the
naming of auto-created echo base files.  The function is descibed at page
26.

 NB> Right. It was the areas.bbs format you had above that
 NB> confused me, not the echomail.jam format. Have you tried a
 NB> test post on an echo not cloned from FE to see if
 NB> echomail.jam is read properly?

Just a little while ago, twice.  The echomail.jam file read...
--- 8< --- 
/opt/ftn/fido/msgbase/aviation 14
--- 8< --- 

That was the second attempt... I forgot to check the file first time
around.  Oops.  Lucky #13, it was.  Don't look for them of course.  Nothing
gets out of the glass menagerie alive.  ;-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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