Hello Craig.
10 Feb 97 00:43, Craig Clark wrote to All:
 CC> I'm looking for a utility that can compare my current SQUISH.CFG (or
 CC> MSGAREA.CTL) with a current BACKBONE.NA/NO, and report on which areas
 CC> are in my configuration file(s) that are no longer in existence.
SEAL can do this indirectly.  It is a TICK/RAID/AREAFIX (and more) util aimed 
squarely at Max/Squish sysops.  One of it's functions is to update the area 
descriptions from the .NA/.NO files.  If you force it to update all 
descriptions, and choose your "not found" default string wisely, it should be 
easy to identify which areas are dropped by inspecting your SQUISH.CFG 
afterwards.
 CC> As an alternative, I could use a utility to export my Squish
 CC> configuration to AREAS.BBS or something similar if that makes the job
 CC> any easier.
SEAL also has a command that will do this, if need be.
 CC> Anyone have a utility that does this, and runs under either DOS or
 CC> OS/2?
Now the bad news:  SEAL is DOS, but runs fine under OS/2...well enough that I 
accept the overhead of spawning the DOS session in exchange for it being able 
to do so many functions in a single run.  SEAL is dead for further 
development...the author lost the source code in a disk crash and doesn't 
want to reconstruct it from scratch.  SEAL is dead for author support on 
Fido...the author recently retired his node.
.\\ike
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