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   Message 10 of 2,445   
   Gert Koefoed Andersen to Vince Coen   
   File Editor?   
   27 Aug 10 09:29:16   
   
   Hello Vince!   
      
   Thu Aug 26 2010, Vince Coen wrote to All:   
      
      
    VC>Thinking about this some more, it is beginning to dawn on me that I    
    VC>might be    
    VC>creating a rod for my own back by creaing a file description editing    
    VC>tool.   
      
    VC>Don't know about your bbs's but on mine not many (if any) download the    
    VC>files    
    VC>lists new or for that matter the full one.   
      
    VC>So if I create it, do I really want to start editing all of the file    
    VC>descriptions when no one will read them?   
      
    VC>So who has a real need for one?   
      
    VC>What I planned was to create a module within the routine via mbse main    
    VC>menu 14    
    VC>that will allow an edit by grabbing the description and passing it to    
    VC>your    
    VC>defined editor or vim and then taking the changes back from the editor    
    VC>and    
    VC>replacing the file description. I still have to figure out the way the    
    VC>file    
    VC>description database works in order to place it correctly but hopefully    
    VC>this    
    VC>should not be a major issue (he says).   
      
    VC>Let me know your thoughts on this.   
      
   Some year ago Michiel wrote that he had a todo for mbse to work with using   
   toos badarea function.   
   If we for mbse could have the function of mbfido to -b for toss badarea after   
   some update of the echoarea file.   
      
      
     Take care,   
               Gert   
      
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