Victor Loberger wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 RJT> is that it's generating filearea.ctl stuff that's for max2,  
 RJT> not max3!  Still,  I can take what it did and work with it,  
 RJT> though I've still got a *pile* of work to do before I get done 
 RJT> with this...
 VL>         Ah, depending upon the version of SCDMAX you received, 
An earlier one,  initially...
 VL> the .CTL files are Max3 and *not* Max2. 
Nope,  I know what I'm lookin' at there:
Area 304
        FileAccess      DISGRACE
        Download        Y:\APPS\MISC
        FileList        E:\MAX3\FILE\Misc_Cd.BBS
        Upload          M:\MAX\FILE\INBOUND\UPLOADS\
End Area
"Fileaccess" rather than "ACS",  "FileInfo" rather than "Desc" (which I've 
already deleted from these),  no "Type CD",  etc.
 VL> Granted, you do have to put the file division starting and 
 VL> ending lines in the .CTL file(s), but that should be all.
I don't use file divisions here.
 VL> The latest released version is SCDMAX05.ZIP, dated March 30, 
 VL> 1996.
That's the one that just arrived here,  but the one I was referring to above 
was 02.
 VL> If the version you have has the "TYPE" field, then it's Max3 
 VL> format.
See above.
 VL> SCDMAX05 also allows you to enter the file area descriptions 
 VL> while processing the CD-ROM.  Thus, you don't have to go back 
 VL> and edit the .CTL file except for the file division thingie.  
 VL> 8-)
I've got a whole set of file areas here that don't seem to want to match up 
with what's out there on cd's,  at least not that I've seen.    So no 
matter what,  I've *still* got a lot of work to do.  I took a _copy_ of my 
filearea.ctl file,  started with that,  ran the utility,  and went from 
ere.
I've already hit bunches of stuff where I don't like where they put it and so 
I've had to go ahead and generate some more *.bbs files,  and then get 
explicit about paths in there.  Good thing both max and HLIST like that 
okay...
 VL> If you have any problems, please let me know.  I'm dying to 
 VL> do/add something to SCDMAX, but no one has suggested anything.  
 VL> I did increase the size of the "TYPE" field a little and 
 VL> allowed for commas in the file area description in my version, 
 VL> but that's hardly worth releasing.  8-) 
Yeah,  I just happened to notice your name in there when I was looking at the 
version that just got here...
Does it allow for longer descriptions when you tell it to put 'em all on one 
line?  That was a bit of a disappointment with the earlier version,  in that 
I took one look at what I'd ended up with and ran it again with the stuff on 
separate lines,  editing that too.
One other thing I have to add in there for my situation,  for what it's 
worth, is a pair of brackets for a download counter.  I suppose I could have 
a go at letting the software initialize those files,  but since it talks 
about working with a directory rather than a filelist I don't know how well 
it'd handle it. Not a big deal,  I usually edit the heck out of descriptions 
anyhow...
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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