On 2017 Jan 18 17:48:06, you wrote to Nick Andre:   
      
    NA>> and D'Bridge was published at a time before this was proposed. I   
    NA>> believe Greg Dawson designed the original specification.   
      
    WV> I have this one saved:   
      
    WV>                               AreaFix v1.30 User Guide   
    WV>                           originally by Jeffrey J. Nonken   
      
    WV> That's used by Bjorn. He called it the original AreaFix.   
      
   it was that at one time areafix was a separate program from the tosser and   
   relied on the tosser's comfig files to perform its job... then some tosser   
   authors integrated areafix directly into their programs...   
      
    WV> It works about the same as d'Bridge with options (like -R -L and -Q)   
    WV> on the command line after the password.   
      
   yup.. that's the really old-school way and it is quite limited as well...   
      
    NA>> There are quite a few legacy tossers that do not conform to this   
    NA>> proposal.   
      
    WV> I know BBBS is a bit different, but I have no link with a BBBS system,   
    WV> so I don't know the details.   
      
   BBBS uses a regex format and it does both file and message areas all in one...   
   there is a way to do only messages or only file areas but just a plain   
      
     +foo   
      
   or such can easily result in you getting file areas (TICs) you weren't looking   
   for...   
      
    WV> But besides those above I don't know any that don't conform more or   
    WV> less to the method described in the fsc proposal.   
      
   such as it is, it is a good attempt... hopefully it won't be used like other   
   proposals and standards to try to beat others into some sort of submission...   
      
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