Hello Wilfred,   
      
   On Fri Aug 18 2017 22:27:12, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Nicholas Boel:   
      
    WvV>> I'll have a look...   
      
    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.   
      
   Thanks. This all seemed to do the trick, including adding a comment at the top   
   of the file since it's ignored.   
      
    WV> I did a little google search for '"areas.bbs" format'. I didn't find   
    WV> much, but what I found suggests that every piece of software using it,   
    WV> has it's own ideas about the little details.   
      
   Exactly! For example, Synchronet doesn't use JAM or Hudson, so some other   
   format was probably invented there too.   
      
    WV> The golded document: goldref.txt, says this about it:   
      
    WV>         AreasBBS   
      
    WV>             GoldED is can handle a wide variety of AREAS.BBS type   
    WV> files. It   
    WV>             can read and distinguish between the old CONFMAIL style   
    WV> with paths   
    WV>             for *.MSG areas, the Hudson/Goldbase style with board   
    WV> numbers, the   
    WV>             Squish style with "$basename" and the JAM style with   
    WV> "!basename".   
      
   While Golded may handle a wide variety for import, the only thing I could get   
   it to export was what I gave to you. It didn't include any "!" even though   
   every area defined in fidoconfig was set to JAM.   
      
    WV> So I guess FConfig supports Hudson and JAM style.   
      
   Ok. Looks like I learned something new today! ;)   
      
   Regards,   
   Nick   
      
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