Hello Pat.

24 Jul 96 10:18, Pat Climento wrote to Robert Pearson:

 PC>   I was reading very leate last night and I thought I saw something
 PC> about a new Seal.05.ARJ, was I seeing things or is this true. If true
 PC> will.50 handle the new Max File & MsgArea.Ctl? When will it be
 PC> available for the general public? Is this for DOS & OS/2 or both

Yes it's out.  Yes it handles 3.x CTL files, including group divisions
though single-level only...not nested.  It is available via Robert
Presland's homepage and is supposedly on it's way through the SDSMAX file
echo. DOS only...no OS/2.

 PC>   I wish I knew how to program but I don't have the necessay memory
 PC> needed to program.

If you're running OS/2 then you have the memory to program, and a nice
language to do it with, too...REXX.

 PC> Max is the greatest FREE BBS that has come along in a
 PC> long time but I have asked so many time for someone to write a
 PC> program(s) that could read any .NA file and turn it into a
 PC> FileArea.Ctl and also a MsgArea.Ctl but as of yet NO one is
 PC> interested.

This would be very simple to do with REXX.  It's just mapping text data
from one format to another...probably REXX's greatest strength.  If you
don't have enough RAM to write programs, you probably don't have enough
disk space to keep all of the FIDONET.NA and FILEBONE.NA areas online for
your BBS callers, though.  Not many would...which probably explains the
lack of response you got for your request for such a utility.  If you're
just worried about the ones that you're hooked up to, then SEAL will take
of it for you now.

.\\ike

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