Hello Kevin!

02 Jan 06 13:20, Kevin Klement wrote to Mike Tripp:

 KK> Yep again, and I'm still using SEAL, Okay, seal will write my
 KK> msgarea.ctl via squish.cfg, but how do I automatically delete old echo
 KK> areas from squish.cfg, maybe using backbone.na?

An "AREAFIX -L" message to your uplink(s) should get you a reply
netmail with the taglist of the echoes you're still connected to.

SEAL can list what's set up locally (SQUISH.CFG) to a text file in a couple
of formats:

AREAS          Create a
formatted list file
LIST           Create a
standard list file

"AREAS" is good if you're looking for the filenames for each area
to use as reference or piping for utilities.  "LIST" is good if
you only need tagnames.

Once you can compare the 2 lists (what your uplink has and what you think
you have), you can just SEAL DROP E  any you show that your
uplink doesn't and SEAL will remove all of the "bogus" SQUISH.CFG
entries.  If you're handy with an editor you should be able to merge,
dedup, and then search-n-replace what's left into a BAT/CMD file that does
the DROPs.

If you're just trying to identify which ones aren't in BACKBONE.NA any more
(careful: as you'll have regional/net sysop echoes and local echoes not
there), a quick trick is "SEAL DESCRIBE -forced".  That forces
SEAL to use the .NAs you've defined to recreate the descriptions on the
;EchoSpec lines in SQUISH.CFG for each area.  If it's not in the .NA list,
the description will go blank. Without the "-forced", an old
description is retained if a new description is not found in the .NA.

.\\ike

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