Subj : DDAreaChooser glitch
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Dec 17 2025 07:45 am

I decided to add Araknet back to my BBS. I created the message section,
then imported the areas via a .NA file. The areas imported just fine,
but when I looked at them in the BBS, there was the message section I
created called ARAKNET. Inside of that was another section called
Araknet. Inside that section were all of the areas I'd created.

Odd.

I tried adding them manually, the same thing happened.

I noticed that the .NA file description was

"Araknet: Area Description"

and that the area description on the BBS was

"Area Description"

So, it seemed that the area chooser was parsing the name and making a
subsection out of the part of the description preceeding the colon.

When I edited the .NA file to remove the colons between "Araknet" and the
area description and re-imported the areas, they imported the way I'd
expect - ARAKNET message section, which included all of the areas at the
root of the section.

Not sure if that's a bug or a feature, but it could come in handy -
especially with large file libraries.



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