Subj : Setting up G-key Text File Section and the easiest way to set up a si
To : Odusseus71
From : echicken
Date : Tue Aug 06 2024 01:27 pm
Re: Setting up G-key Text File Section and the easiest way to set up a sim
By: Odusseus71 to all on Tue Aug 06 2024 08:56:48
And I'm back again.
Od> I was assuming it was simply putting text files into sbbs/Data/Text
Od> subdirs and then using postfile.js to add them to database, but this did
So yes, you create your text file section(s) via scfg, and then drop your files into data/text/[section] directory.
After that you can run ?text_sec on your BBS, navigate to a section, and A)dd,
R)emove, or E)dit a given file.
Each text file section appears to get an ini file, but I had the location wrong. You can find these at data/text/[section].ini. The format appears to be:
[/full/path/to/file]
desc = Some file description
path = /full/path/to/file
So if you wanted to populate that by hand or by script rather than enter them via text_sec.js, you could do that.
[/sbbs/data/text/test/testfile.txt]
desc=This is just a test file
path=/sbbs/data/text/test/testfile.txt
If you have a lot of files, populating a section with descriptions would be pretty laborious. I'm imagining an import script that maybe just uses the first non-blank line of the text file as the description, which might suffice for a lot of them.
