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to: Carol Shenkenberger
from: Steven Sheeley
date: 2016-11-26 07:21:10
subject: Rescan

Hello Carol!

25 Nov 16 19:30, you wrote to mark lewis:

 CS>   Re: Rescan
 CS>   By: mark lewis to Wilfred van Velzen on Thu Nov 24 2016 10:32 am

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

 CS> SBBS documentation tends to be volumous but oddly not very detailed in
 CS> some spots and that's one of them.  I'm not saying it isnt there, but
 CS> finding it can take longer than expected.

 CS> A lot of things in SBBS however can be text edited once you find where
 CS> it is.


AREAFIX Commands

Remote area manager, or areafix, commands are used by uplinks to be able to
turn echo areas off and on, list currently connected areas, and more. The
following text is from the file AREAMGR.HLP which, after installation of
SBBSecho, should be located in your Synchronet EXEC directory. It lists the
area manager commands available to the nodes which have been configured
using the ECHOCFG program:

Steven


... Who do you think you are, Zaphod Beebelbrox?"  "Count the heads.
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