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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: Alex Woick
from: Dmitry Sergienko
date: 2004-01-15 22:37:14
subject: Re: hpt expanding variables in area description

Hi, Alex!

Четверг Январь 15 2004, at 16:26 Alex Woick wrote to Dmitry Sergienko:

 DS>> What exact modifications do you propose?
 AW>
 AW> Difficult in general, since it is deep inside the fidoconf config
 AW> parser. If I have read correctly, the variable expansion is done with
 AW> the var_expand() call at the beginning in fidoconf's
 AW> line.c::parseLine(). This is before any semantic analysis of the
 AW> keywords. Perhaps the areafix could be modified: It could filter out
 AW> [variable] constructs out of area forwarding lists before writing back
 AW> information into the -d "description" field from
auto-created EchoArea
 AW> definitions. I don't know if it does this already, since that is a
 AW> piece of software that changed very much recently.

No, I don't know about such changes. I will make a note about this problem
and will try to fix this. Or you can send me a patch and this will be fixed
faster :)

    Dmitry

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