Hi! Nicholas,   
      
   On Thu, 07 Sep 17, you wrote to me:   
      
    PQ>> It is how FE does that sort of thing.   
      
    NB> Is that some sort of separate option or setting? I can only   
    NB> seem to recall areatag-esque filenames created by FastEcho   
    NB> when I used it some ages ago. At least I don't remember any   
    NB> tosser I've ever used making filenames like that by   
    NB> default.   
      
   Nothing special other than only certain up/down/sideways-linked systems can be   
   given access to the function.  There is a 'perhaps', maybe, if it does the   
   hash when there ain't no backbone-type of tag descriptor file.[shrug]  Just   
   browsing the doco 5 mins ago, I couldn't see anything related to the naming of   
   auto-created echo base files.  The function is descibed at page 26.   
      
    NB> Right. It was the areas.bbs format you had above that   
    NB> confused me, not the echomail.jam format. Have you tried a   
    NB> test post on an echo not cloned from FE to see if   
    NB> echomail.jam is read properly?   
      
   Just a little while ago, twice.  The echomail.jam file read...   
   --- 8< ---    
   /opt/ftn/fido/msgbase/aviation 14   
   --- 8< ---    
      
   That was the second attempt... I forgot to check the file first time around.    
   Oops.  Lucky #13, it was.  Don't look for them of course.  Nothing gets out of   
   the glass menagerie alive.  ;-)   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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