* EleBBS Support List

Well, that worked enough for me to manually sort from now on.  Unfortunately
any message areas with an underscore in their title disappered.  I'm going
through fastecho one at a time and re-adding them.  That's a lot faster than
manually sorting 260 or so echo areas.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Ehlert [mailto:mike{at}pcmicro.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 8:13 PM
To: elebbs{at}thebbs.org
Subject: Re: EleBBS: sorting message areas...


* EleBBS Support List

> As I've mentioned, I had to start from scratch.  Previously, I manually
> sorted message area titles as they were created by fastecho.  Now,
> however,
> I had a few hundred areas come in at the same time.  I can do this
> manually,
> but I was wondering if there was an automatic way or utility to do this
> for
> me.  Additionally, to avoid confusion in the newsgroups, I want to add
> FIDO_
> to the title of each area and other prefixes to a few other areas.  Can
> this
> easily be done?

You many want to try RAUTIL which did this well.. but I think it was before
RA 2.50, in which case you would need to do the following:

Backup messages.ra, mgroups.ra, *.rdx, and your message area directories.
Delete messages.rdx
Run RAUTIL and sort
Then to convert back to RA 2.50 format, you would need to run
  20XTO250.EXE (from RA 2.50) or 20XTO260.EXE (from RA 2.60)
  and tell it to only upgrade your message areas.

Regards,  Mike


_______________________________________________________________


--- Internet Rex 2.29