Hello Neil!
Sunday October 12 1997 11:40, Neil Staib wrote to All:
 NS> Does anyone know of a utility that will select a file area and make it
 NS> free btyes/time or both? I have maxlist, but it's broken and doesn't
 NS> work.
I think you can specify this in your filearea.ctl. Here's what the docs say:
                Table 18.11 File Area Types
                Type        Description
                CD          This area is stored on CD-ROM. This is equiva-
                            lent to Type Slow Staged NoNew.
                DateAuto    Use automatic file dating for this area. FB
                            and Maximus will retrieve a file's size and
                            date information from the directory specified
                            in the Download path.
                DateList    Use list-based file dating for this area. Both
                            Maximus and FB parse the file dates and sizes
                            correctly out of the files.bbs for this area
                            without looking for the directory entry.
                DateManual  Use no file dating at all. The file descrip-
                            tions for this area may contain size and date
                            information, but they are not interpreted by
                            Maximus or FB in any way.
*                Free        This type is equivalent to specifying Type
                            FreeTime FreeSize.
*                FreeBytes   Both of these keywords allow all files in this
*                FreeSize    area to be downloaded without adding the files
                            to the user's file download limit. This is
                            equivalent to placing a "/b" in the descrip-
Or you can do it on a file-by-file basis with "/b" for free bytes, "/t" for 
free time or "/tb" for both free time and free bytes.
        John
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