Subj : Badareas.lst location
To : Gamgee
From : RickV
Date : Thu Sep 25 2025 12:46 pm
Hello Gamgee!
21 Apr 71 01:34, you wrote to me:
Ga> -=> RickV wrote to Dan Clough <=-
Ri>>> So I have my badareas.lst location defined in echocfg like this,
Ri>>> ../Logs/badareas.lst
Ri>>> But when I go into a message group and want to import the
Ri>>> badareas.lst the location is here,
Ri>>> ../data/badareas.lst
DC>> Why would you do that? (put it in a Logs directory).
DC>> It's not a log. It's a list of bad (undefined) echo areas. Keep
DC>> it in ../data where it belongs, and where other parts of SBBS
DC>> expect it to be. Sheesh.
Ri>> Ok, but don't you think it should work as defined in the config
Ri>> setting you set? Also why then is it DEFINABLE?
Ga> Well, yes. I got curious and went to check what you're saying. I
Ga> changed the defined location of 'badareas.lst' (in sbbsecho.ini, using
Ga> Echocfg). Then I went into SCFG/Message Areas/Message Group/Import
Ga> Areas/badareas.lst ... and ... it still showed the location as
Ga> ../data/badareas.lst . So it does appear to be broken, as you said.
Ga> Digitalman - seems like this is a bug to me. The function in SCFG is
Ga> not reading the defined location of 'badareas.lst' and seems
Ga> hard-wired to ../data/badareas.lst .
Digital Man did say "it's operating as designed", so for some reason that's the way it suppose to be.
RickV
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