Subj : clean up
To : Kevin Klement
From : Mike Tripp
Date : Sun Jul 13 2008 02:31 pm
Hello Kevin!
12 Jul 08 13:39, Kevin Klement wrote to All:
KK> I'm running MS-DOS versions of Seal and Squish, the fidonet backbone
KK> echo areas is now a small 200 areas, my squish.cfg needs a clean up of
KK> dead echo areas.
KK> Any quick way of doing this?
DROP will both clean up the SQUISH.CFG entries and delete the message data
files for the area. I assume you are looking for an easy way to identify which
tags to drop, based on the criteria that they no longer are listed in the .NA
file?
If so, you can force SEAL to update the descriptions for the areas on the
;EchoSpec lines with:
SEAL DESCRIBE E <.NA filename> -FORCED
Without -FORCED, only missing descriptions are updated with current ones...so
the old lines will still have their old descriptions that were added when the
area was first created. Adding -FORCED will change them to blank, "(no
description available)", or whatever SEAL.INI has defined as
DefaultDescription.
After that, a little FIND on the "no description" string and search-n-replace
magic is all it takes to make a .BAT with one SEAL DROP E <tagname> line per
area. Scan the tags to make sure you don't accidentally delete local or
regional echoes that either don't appear in the .NA or come from another
uplink.
Setting GroupLines to "yes" may also be helpful if you normally see each
;EchoSpec line immediately after its corresponding EchoArea line. It toggles
them from being interleaved to listed as a block of EchoArea lines and separate
block of ;EchoSpec lines. Don't forget to run SEAL UPDATE to have it rewrite
the SQUISH.CFG after toggling the setting in SEALCFG or directly in SEAL.INI.
I recently had a downlink leave and then come back, and PAUSE / RESUME would do
pretty much what you're after more simply since it won't RESUME areas that
aren't found in the .NA with your uplink...but it doesn't like your own address
or the feed address as an argument.
