So, I got htick setup now to /handle/ forwarding file requests, to some degree,
but not yet complete.

An area I am having difficulty with so far is the the filefixForwardRequestFile
format, what it's expecting, for example..

I've tried the standard backbone format, which is like:
Area DAILYLIST   0     !       ADM: Daily Fidonet Nodelist 
Area NODELIST    0     !       ADM: Weekly Fidonet Nodelist in ZIP format
Area NODEDIFF    0     !       ADM: Weekly Fidonet nodediff in ARC format
Area DIFFZIP     0     !       ADM: Weekly Fidonet nodediff in ZIP format
Area DIFFLZH     0     !       ADM: Weekly Fidonet nodediff in LZH format
Area COORDUTL    0     !       ADM: Coordinator Tools and Utilities
Area BACKBONE    0     !       ADM: ZoneHub appointed spokesperson/robot

I've also tried to convert that into a echolist .NA format as such:

DAILYLIST           ADM: Daily Fidonet Nodelist
NODELIST            ADM: Weekly Fidonet Nodelist in ZIP format
NODEDIFF            ADM: Weekly Fidonet nodediff in ARC format
DIFFZIP             ADM: Weekly Fidonet nodediff in ZIP format
DIFFLZH             ADM: Weekly Fidonet nodediff in LZH format
COORDUTL            ADM: Coordinator Tools and Utilities
FG_WORF             FGW: FileGate Info files, FAQs, FILEGATE.ZXX, filegate.hdr
ECHOSTAT            ADM: Echomail Traffic and flow statistics

Neither of which are apparently seeming to work.

What I have is my 1:135/371 Link in the config has the following:

Link fido-uplink
    Aka 1:net/node
    ourAka 1:135/371
    Password ***
    NetMailFlavour crash
    FileEchoFlavour crash
    Packer zip
    AccessGrp Fido
    LinkGrp Fido
    Level 100
    Areafix off
    Filefix off
    areafixAutoCreate off
    areafixAutoCreateFile /sbbs/etc/ftn-links.fidonet.auto.cfg
    areafixDenyFwdReqAccess on
    areafixDenyUncondFwdReqAccess on
    areafixForwardRequests off
    AutoFileCreateSubdirs on
    filefixAutoCreate on
    filefixAutoCreateDefaults -p 14
    filefixForwardRequests on
    filefixFwdPriority 1
    filefixFwdFile /sbbs/ctrl/fidonet.fa
    #filefixFwdFile /sbbs/data/filegate.zxx

Neither the fidonet.fa or filegate.zxx show up when doing a %list..

Perhaps it just doesn't show them, but possibly still allows the attempt to go
through?

I'm also assuming that, per the documentation anyway, that:
filefixForwardRequests on|off

Goes onto the actual uplink links where you actually get fileecho links, sorted
by
filefixFwdPriority N

And does not go onto the actual links that would be making the requests..

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