Subj : Importing FILE_ID.DIZ
To : Odysseus
From : Liquid Memory
Date : Sun Dec 03 2000 04:30 pm
RE: BIN
BY: PistolGrip to odysseus on Sun Dec 03 2000 01:43 am
>
> > Secondly, For some reason I can't my File Bases to see the "FILE_ID.DIZ"
> > and Im stuck having to manually editing the descriptions.. is there an ea
> > way of having these descriptions validated?
>
> Synchronet comes pre-configured to import DIZ's automatically. But, you mus
> copy PKZIP.EXE and PKUNZIP.EXE into your SBBS\EXEC directory, or they must b
> in your path. Putting them in SBBS\EXEC is recommended.
>
> Also, refer to the ADDFILES section of the sysop documentation if you've got
> lot of files ot upload.
>
> PG
Also, you can only import file_id.diz through the BBS, ADDFILES.EXE will not
import the file_id.diz from the zip file. You must use the ;UPLOAD or the
;UPLOAD ALL from the transfer menu, when it starts searching, it will display a
line for a short description of the file, and when you press enter, it will
import the file_id.diz for the extended description. Pistol Grip and myself
like to jam something in the enter key to upload files to the database. If you
do this and there is no file_id.diz in the zip, or the file is not a ZIP file,
then you will have the description as "No description given for this file.",
which can be changed in the TEXT.DAT file.
