Francois Thunus wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 FT>  Hello !

 FT> 20 Jan 05 18:09, Russell Tiedt wrote to Roy J. Tellason:

 RT>>> Looking for a way to generate a files.bbs file for a directory of
 RT>>> files.
 RT>>> This will greatly facilitate me adding about 1500 files to my
 RT>>> file base.

 RT>> I use a text editor.  :-)

 RT> So do I on occasion, shall I send you 15 CD's worth of files to make
 RT> files.bbs files for.  I don't have the time for that
route, let me
 RT> know if you have enough spare time. 

 FT> I missed the original post, but it shouldn't be too difficult. Just
 FT> recusively get all the names of all the files under a given
 FT> directory and add them to a file, and that's it.

I think I vaguely remember something of the sort when I first put my bbs
up,  under dos (where it still is!).  It was suggested in the maximus docs,
 if I'm remembering right.

Maybe if I can get enough of this other stuff out of the way I can think
about moving the bbs to some sort of a linux-based setup...

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