Hi mark,   
      
   On 2017-08-18 19:54:52, you wrote to me:   
      
    WV>> Yours and Pauls are slightly different in format. Yours is different   
    WV>> enough to not be correctly processed by the import function of   
    WV>> FConfig. FConfig expects lines defining a Jam area to start with a '!'   
    WV>> character followed directly by the filename. If there's no '!'   
    WV>> character as the first character on the line, it reads it as a hudson   
    WV>> message base area, where the first field is the board number. So you   
    WV>> should be able to edit your file to get it imported by FConfig. One   
    WV>> other quirk to consider: it ignores the first line of the file.   
      
    ml> ignoring that first line isn't really a quirk... the first line(s) are   
    ml> generally comment lines... most of the time the contain information about   
    ml> who/what built the file...   
      
   Indeed "most of the time", because Pauls areas.bbs first line was a regular   
   line with an area definition...   
      
    ml> those comment lines start with a semicolon and there can be additional   
    ml> comment lines further inside the document but most processors will not   
    ml> keep them if they rewrite the file...   
      
    ml> what i'm trying to say is that the only lines that should be being skipped   
    ml> are those starting with a semicolon...   
      
   FConfig also skips lines starting with a semicolon...   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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