On 12/29/14, Nick Andre pondered and said...
 
 NA> GUI bug. Use arrow-up to scroll backwards, it will move the cursor to it.

Ah thanks ..

 NA> Give the index field the gateway address but watch carefully what

Will do.

 NA> Since you are trying to understand how DB does things with forcing the
 NA> update of available groups, I would not use that command until you read
 NA> the rest below... that command essentially executes VSOUPWIN -A (your
[snip]
 NA> the currently-subscribed areas, so thats why you need to be careful
 NA> running that.

Cool, understood.

 NA> I know its a mess but again - this was never something I was happy with
 NA> or intending for the general public to use, until now.

No it's all good, what you have explained had been very clear and helpful.

 NA> PH> Is there a syntax / wildcards I can/should use inside this file?
 NA> 
 NA> No. Any entry that matches will be rejected (not added to D'Bridge
 NA> Areafix). Semi-colon entries are ignored within.

Gotcha.

 NA> Vsoup generates reports every time it runs. By default, D'Bridge does
 NA> not import them. You should remove the line "JunkFrom VSOUP" from
 NA> SOUPGATE.CFG to override this.

Yes, I'd noticed that. I've been playing with VSoup and SoupGate as
standalone .exe with Mystic and will also set up DB as you described to get a
comparative feel for each option and the pro's / con's of using either.

I'm using FastEcho as my HUB tosser at the moment and unsure if I want to cut
over to DB due to the set time required and unsure about comparability of
feature sets / functionality.

I was pondering if I could somehow run both side by side with DB handling the
Usenet gateway side of things and FE doing what it does now? But then I came
unstuck in how that may be even remotely possible.


`I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going' - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7

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