19 Apr 95 06:53, Bill Grimsley wrote to Paul Edwards:

PE>> MSGED doesn't recognize the squish "locarea" keyword as an
PE>> area.  I have also changed that (but not tested it).  I
PE>> consider that to be a bug, because I presume it has been a
PE>> squish keyword for a long time.  Can be a bit tricky to
PE>> decide whether something is a bug or an enhancement.  

BG> Never heard of that keyword.

Paul, Bill, it's called "LocalArea".  Squish does not recognise it, but
programs such as GoldED and timEd do.  As far as timEd is concerned,
LocalAreas should not have a tearline or origin line.  I'm not sure what
GoldED does with LocalAreas.

BG> That'll teach to to read the squish 1.11 docs a bit more carefully in
BG> future.

You can read to your hearts content, but it ain't in there, Jim. :-)

BG> How does it work with Msged though?

Right now it doesn't.  The 'fix' is to redefine any LocalArea defines as
EchoAreas but don't export them to anyone, eg.

;------------------------------------------------------------
;  SQUISH.CFG   Squish configuration file.
;------------------------------------------------------------

...

EchoArea  net.old        E:\MSGBASE\LOCAL\OLD_NET     -$
EchoArea  sysop          E:\MSGBASE\LOCAL\SYSOP       -$
EchoArea  memo           E:\MSGBASE\LOCAL\TEMP        -$
EchoArea  mail_backlog   E:\MSGBASE\LOCAL\BACKLOG     -$
EchoArea  blizz.chat     E:\MSGBASE\LOCAL\CHAT        -$
EchoArea  blizz.maint    E:\MSGBASE\LOCAL\MAINT       -$


ZeeYa...
Andrew.

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