On 2017 Jan 21 07:34:38, you wrote to me:   
      
    NB>>> If it took you two or three days to search for and find the "misc"   
    NB>>> directory under HPT's (and HTICK's for that matter) root directory,   
      
    ml>> why would i look in there? it isn't a misc file... a document or   
    ml>> config file, sure but not misc...   
      
    NB> Sysop documentation happens to be in the "doc" subdirectory.   
    NB> Configuration files happen to be in the "config" subdirectory. And   
    NB> since you've already gone through both of those after install,   
      
   i did not... i didn't go through them until i went looking for the areafix   
   help file...   
      
    NB> why not check out the "misc" directory? I would definitely consider   
    NB> areafix.hlp/filefix.hlp a miscellaneous file. It's not sysop   
    NB> documentation so I wouldn't put it with the other sysop documentation   
    NB> in the "doc" directory, it's a document for the user, to be placed   
    NB> wherever you want it to be, hence a "misc" file.   
      
   i consider the help files to be documentation because they are the   
   documentation for the remote systems to use when requesting help for areafix   
   and filefix...   
      
    NB> And if I remember right, you have to actually specify the location of   
    NB> the areafix.hlp/filefix.hlp in your robots sections in the main   
    NB> fidoconfig file, which means it's not hardcoded and can be located   
    NB> anywhere, hence the miscellaneous part. *shrug*   
      
   i think there is that but if make install places the sample configs then it   
   can also place the help files *shrug*   
      
    NB>>> then I suspect PEBCAK rather than the program itself. Where would   
    NB>>> you expect it to be otherwise?   
      
    ml>> after running make install i would expect to find it installed along   
    ml>> with the binaries and sample configs... but that's not what happened   
    ml>> for either of the help files or the sample configs... i had to find a   
    ml>> way to generate a config file to even get started... in that case i   
    ml>> found and used fidoInst by Zano and butchered that config into my   
    ml>> working copy...   
      
    NB> I can agree with the config files. After 'make install' some default   
    NB> templates should probably be put into a proper place, since the config   
    NB> directory is specified in huskymak.cfg for a reason. But this doesn't   
    NB> happen.   
      
    NB> The code is freely available to do whatever you want with it, though.   
      
   you and i are a lot alike in many respects, nick... like you, i'm not a 'make'   
   or 'c' guru...   
      
    NB>>> And now to try to bring us back to the original topic in the   
    NB>>> DBRIDGE echo, It was requested that DB have a help screen for   
    NB>>> users trying to access Areafix, and now it does as of the latest   
    NB>>> update. I'd call that a success!   
      
    ml>> it is a success... no one is disputing that :)   
      
    NB> Instead of pointing that out, the first things mentioned after the fact   
   was   
    NB> what DB's areafix was lacking compared to other tosser's areafixes. Nick   
    NB> has already stated he's not going to add in all the fluff that other   
    NB> tossers have added in over the years, so why beat a dead horse?   
      
   i didn't do that pointing... someone else did so don't include me in it...   
      
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