Hi Nicholas,   
      
   On 2017-08-18 22:00:09, I wrote to you:   
      
    NB>> and both Windows and Linux paths The one that's in your inbound is   
    NB>> Linux paths, which can easily be copy/replaced to Windows format.   
      
    WvV> I'll have a look...   
      
   Yours and Pauls are slightly different in format. Yours is different enough to   
   not be correctly processed by the import function of FConfig.   
   FConfig expects lines defining a Jam area to start with a '!' character   
   followed directly by the filename. If there's no '!' character as the first   
   character on the line, it reads it as a hudson message base area, where the   
   first field is the board number.   
   So you should be able to edit your file to get it imported by FConfig.   
   One other quirk to consider: it ignores the first line of the file.   
      
   I did a little google search for '"areas.bbs" format'. I didn't find much, but   
   what I found suggests that every piece of software using it, has it's own   
   ideas about the little details.   
      
   The golded document: goldref.txt, says this about it:   
      
           AreasBBS   
      
               GoldED is can handle a wide variety of AREAS.BBS type files. It   
               can read and distinguish between the old CONFMAIL style with paths   
               for *.MSG areas, the Hudson/Goldbase style with board numbers, the   
               Squish style with "$basename" and the JAM style with "!basename".   
      
   So I guess FConfig supports Hudson and JAM style.   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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