Hi,

On 2016-11-24 10:32:50, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Rescan":

 ml> sbbsecho might also benefit from this proposal as i'm not sure even
 ml> how to find its areafix help document that the operator may edit like
 ml> other tossers have...

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{at}PID: SBBSecho 3.00-Win32 r3.17 Jul 19 2016 MSC 1800
Address all requests to 'SBBSecho' or 'AreaFix' (without quotes).
Your Area Manager password goes on the subject line.

In the body of the message to Area Manager:

[+]         Connect an area
-           Disconnect an area
%HELP                 Request this message
%LIST                 Request a list of areas available to you
%QUERY                Request a list of areas to which you are connected
%UNLINKED             Request a list of areas to which you are not connected
%COMPRESSION    Change the compression type (ARC/ARJ/LZH/PAK/SQZ/ZIP/ZOO)
%PASSWORD   Change your AreaMgr password
%RESCAN         Request a rescan of newly added areas
%ACTIVE         Reconnect all temporarily disconnected areas
%PASSIVE        Temporarily disconnect all connected areas
%FROM        Remote maintenance, must be the first command
%+ALL         Connect all available areas
%-ALL         Disconnect all areas
[---]                 Everything below the tear line is ignored

NOTE: A compression type of NONE is also supported for uncompressed packets.
~~~

So that's more or less compatible.

But it has (had?) a bug where if you use %RESCAN it always rescans ALL
connected areas.
This was a cause of some of the massive dupe "dumps" we have seen
in the last couple of years.

Bye, Wilfred.


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