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|    Marceline Jones to ANDREW CLARKE    |
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|    28 Feb 21 16:58:00    |
      TZUTC: -0800       MSGID: 3691.golded@1:103/705 24a08049       REPLY: 3:633/267 6037b74b       PID: Synchronet 3.18c-Win32 master/16690e16f Feb 22 2021 MSC 1928       TID: SBBSecho 3.13-Linux master/160606e4c Feb 22 2021 GCC 8.3.0       BBSID: VERT       CHRS: ASCII 1        MJ> Can GoldEd create message areas ? or do I need to create them using a        MJ> BBS first before I can edit them with GoldEd ?               AC> Other people have answered this already, but something to note is        AC> GoldED won't create subdirectories for you.         AC> Suppose you have this in GOLDED.CFG:        AC> AreaDef JAMAREA "My JAM echo" 0 echo JAM c:\msg\jam\jamarea        AC> If either c:\msg or c:\msg\jam don't exist, GoldED won't create them,        AC> and will possibly crash with a terse error. Worse, it does this after        AC> you save the message you just wrote.         AC> Or at least that's been my experience.              This is good to know.               AC> Concievably there's now a config setting to enable automatic        AC> subdirectory creation. Or it would be nice if there was.         MJ> (I am using GoldED/386 3.00.Beta3).               AC> If my history is correct that's circa 1997.              =================================================       18/03/1998 05:43a 938,413 GED386.EXE       =================================================               AC> Beware of any Y2K bugs with the old versions. :)              Yes, I will bear this in mind.              ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30       --- SBBSecho 3.13-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 18/200 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 123/131 124/5016       SEEN-BY: 129/305 154/10 203/0 218/700 221/0 226/30 227/114 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/424 426 452 664 1016 1017 240/77 2100 5138 5411 5824       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 5853 6309 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 5555 292/854       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120       SEEN-BY: 460/58 633/280 712/848 770/1 2432/390 2452/250 2454/119       PATH: 103/705 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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