Hello Maurice.

02 Oct 03 17:24, you wrote to Michele Marie Dalene:

 MMD>>     There is a tool available in msdos for maximus called
 MMD>> bone2cfg. its a 3rd party utility that does just that. it reads
 MMD>> the fidonet.na or whatever the .na file for the other networks
 MMD>> is called and makes the desired squish.cfg, and msgarea.ctl
 MMD>> files. It made quick work of a nightmare for me. The tool is not
 MMD>> totally perfect though. However, you could probally do the same
 MMD>> with the bash shell or awk.

 MK> That is what I was thinking.  I also thought a tagger where the
 MK> backbone was displayed with checkboxes would be nice.  I wrote a bash
 MK> script years ago using dialog to display the checkbox.  Then it was a
 MK> simple matter of using the spacebar to turn on/off which echoes one
 MK> wished to turn on/off.  It would also be good for users and the BBS
 MK> for both messaging and file selection type of activities.

 MK> Life is good,

Yep, especially if some of the things you mention above arrive real soon. 
(D&R)



Russell

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