Hello mark,

On Fri Jan 20 2017 16:21:36, mark lewis wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> If it took you two or three days to search for and find the
 NB>> "misc" directory under HPT's (and HTICK's for that matter) root
 NB>> directory,

 ml> why would i look in there? it isn't a misc file... a document or
 ml> config file, sure but not misc...

Sysop documentation happens to be in the "doc" subdirectory. Configuration
files happen to be in the "config" subdirectory. And since you've
already gone
through both of those after install, why not check out the "misc"
directory? I
would definitely consider areafix.hlp/filefix.hlp a miscellaneous file. It's
not sysop documentation so I wouldn't put it with the other sysop documentation
 in the "doc" directory, it's a document for the user, to be
placed wherever
you want it to be, hence a "misc" file.

And if I remember right, you have to actually specify the location of the
areafix.hlp/filefix.hlp in your robots sections in the main fidoconfig file,
which means it's not hardcoded and can be located anywhere, hence the
miscellaneous part. *shrug*

 NB>> then I suspect PEBCAK rather than the program itself. Where would
 NB>> you expect it to be otherwise?

 ml> after running make install i would expect to find it installed along
 ml> with the binaries and sample configs... but that's not what happened
 ml> for either of the help files or the sample configs... i had to find a
 ml> way to generate a config file to even get started... in that case i
 ml> found and used fidoInst by Zano and butchered that config into my
 ml> working copy...

I can agree with the config files. After 'make install' some default templates
should probably be put into a proper place, since the config directory is
specified in huskymak.cfg for a reason. But this doesn't happen.

The code is freely available to do whatever you want with it, though.

 NB>> And now to try to bring us back to the original topic in the
 NB>> DBRIDGE echo, It was requested that DB have a help screen for
 NB>> users trying to access Areafix, and now it does as of the latest
 NB>> update. I'd call that a success!

 ml> it is a success... no one is disputing that :)

Instead of pointing that out, the first things mentioned after the fact was
what DB's areafix was lacking compared to other tosser's areafixes. Nick has
already stated he's not going to add in all the fluff that other tossers have
added in over the years, so why beat a dead horse?

Regards,
Nick

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