Re: Feature Request: Moving ECHOCFG to SCFG
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed May 11 2022 06:50 pm

 >   Re: Feature Request: Moving ECHOCFG to SCFG
 >   By: Digital Man to The Millionaire on Wed May 11 2022 04:40 pm
 >
 >  >> How about moving ECHOCFG to SCFG? That way all configs are in one
 >  >> place instead of having them separate.
 >
 >  DM> Perhaps. I don't see that as a major improvement or need, but I
 >  DM> understand why it could be considered "better" by some people.
 >
 > I might be remembering wrong, but I think this question had come up before.
 > I thought the reason for having them separate was that some sysops might
 > choose not to add any FTN networks, so it might not make sense to have a lot
 > of that FTN configuration in SCFG.  But then again, SCFG already has
 > "FIdoNet EchoMail and NetMail" under Networks..  What about moving that from
 > SCFG into Echocfg? :P

Anything's possible. But EchoCfg is completely optional - it just modifies sbbsecho.ini. You could do that by hand. You don't strictly *need* EchoCfg.

SCFG on the other hand is not optional, as it modifies binary configuration (.cnf) files which you can't practically do by hand. SCFG also creates/updates database files and just generally does a lot more than echocfg does.
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