08 Apr 12 08:52, Robert Bashe wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    RW>> I use FE as GoldEd's messagebase.   
      
    RB> FE is a tosser and has no messagebase. It just works with quite a   
    RB> number of them.   
      
   Oh? What does the MSGBASE sub-folder under FE have in it?   
      
    LASTREAD    .BBS   
    MSGHDR      .BBS   
    MSGIDX      .BBS   
    MSGINFO     .BBS   
    MSGTOIDX    .BBS   
    MSGTXT      .BBS   
      
   Why, it's a message base! How odd.   
      
   [more FE weirdness]   
      
    RW>> Nice thing is that instead of a complicated comma delimited text   
    RW>> file, it is GUI user friendly.   
      
    RB> Thanks for the flowers.   
      
   You don't get flowers for making an easy job harder to do, as in having   
   to edit a text based config file.   
      
    RB> I'll pass that on to the author, who lives some 5 miles away from me   
    RB> and now has his own IT company ;-)   
      
   Tell him that he'd have better luck if he provided a GUI system..   
      
    RW>> It also has an option of exporting a text file with the latest   
    RW>> config in it.   
      
    RB> Known.   
      
    RW>> Plus it has another option to export a 'squish' text file if one   
    RW>> wants such a thing.   
      
    RB> Never seen the option, and I suspect it would be for individual   
    RB> echos, not for everything at once.   
      
   Example.   
      
      
    Squish Config   
      
    Created by FESetup 1.46   
      
      
   Address 1:387/22   
      
   NetArea  NETMAIL              L:\FE\NETMAIL   
      
   EchoArea  ALASKA_CHAT          L:\FE\ALASKA                      1:123/500   
   EchoArea  ALL-POLITICS         L:\FE\ALL-POL                     1:123/500   
   EchoArea  AMATEUR_RADIO        L:\FE\A-RADIO                     1:123/500   
   EchoArea  ASIAN_LINK           L:\FE\A-LINK                      1:123/500   
   EchoArea  AUTOMOTIVE           L:\FE\AUTOMOTV                    1:123/500   
      
    ___________ Snip! ____________O/___________________________________   
                                  O\   
      
    RW>> One  could probably export it to a squish messagebase and have it   
    RW>> running in minutes instead of hours.   
      
    RB> I think it would depend on the number of echos. If you only have a   
    RB> few, OK. If you have hundreds, it might be quite a problem.   
      
   The above FE generated squish.cfg file contains a listing of every echo   
   available from the NAB, R19, OZ, Net387 and South Texas...dunno about   
   hundreds of echoes, but the file is over 15k.   
      
    RB>>> No experience with anything else.   
      
    RW>> Too bad.   
      
    RB> You never know until you try - and anyway, you know that what you're   
    RB> using yourself is "the best" ;-)   
      
   I think so. And so does a major NAB hub who has just recently switched   
   to FE.   
      
      
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