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    From Alessandro Trebbi@2:331/313 to All on Friday, May 01, 2020 12:55:56

    I have configured this option in mutil but I can't import file areas ...

    There's no configuration option to specify where to look for files.bbs and I really can't understand where it looks

    I thong it was in "files" mystic subdirectory, and tried to substitute it with a symbolic link to real path where I store my files, but file areas are not imported yet
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  • From Rudi Timmermans@2:292/140 to Alessandro Trebbi on Friday, May 01, 2020 14:11:12
    Hi Alessandro,

    There's no configuration option to specify where to look for files.bbs and I really can't understand where it looks

    When i look into the mutil.ini i see the following

    ; The name of the file to look for in each directory
    filesbbs=files.bbs

    So when i'm not wrong there you can put the path to look for the files.bbs

    Greetings,
    Rudi

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  • From Al@1:153/757 to Alessandro Trebbi on Friday, May 01, 2020 11:50:00
    Hello Alessandro,

    I thong it was in "files" mystic subdirectory, and tried to substitute
    it with a symbolic link to real path where I store my files, but file areas are not imported yet

    I did use this feature many years ago to import some file descriptions from files.bbs. I used a simple files.bbs that looked like this.

    FILENAME.EXT This is the first line of the description
    Second or third lines can be added also.

    Mutil can import other types of files.bbs also but the above worked well for me. I had the files.bbs in the same directory where the files were located and that directory was included in Mystic's config.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Alessandro Trebbi@2:331/313 to Al on Sunday, May 03, 2020 23:14:46
    Quota: Al (1:153/757) ha scritto in data Ven, 01 Maggio 2020 13:50 ----------------------------------------------------
    Mutil can import other types of files.bbs also but the above worked well for me. I had the files.bbs in the same directory where the files were located and
    that directory was included in Mystic's config.
    ----------------------------------------------------

    I need something different, just create file areas (that already exists) inside mystic

    I have tried to configure this option, bu no area was created

    An alternative ?
    I may create a text file with my fileBase and import it, or something like that --- FUDforum on https://fidonet.3bsoft.com
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