mlF> GT> Does anyone know of a program that can easily import CD-ROMs    
    mlF> GT> into the filebase?  I.E.  Not having to manually enter each    
    mlF> GT> file area. Also I am using ra 2.6 so earlier utilities like    
    mlF> GT> addrom don't  work. Even a command-line utility that can add    
    mlF> GT> a file area would  do the trick nicely.  I have many CDs to    
    mlF> GT> import.   
      
    mlF> are you saying that RAFILE IMPORT won't work for you? simply    
    mlF> create the basic area definition for each area in RACONFIG and    
    mlF> then run the import...   
      
    GT> The importing is not the issue, it is the tedious task of adding    
    GT> each area. I have 30 plus cds which have 50 plus areas on each.   
      
   ohhhh... yeah, i can see that...   
      
    GT> I have done a few already and can see it is going to take me a    
    GT> LONG time.   
      
   yeah, i've always done these chores manually and written them off as part of   
   the task of setting up and configuring a system... once it is done, that's   
   another task removed from the TODO list ;)    
      
    GT> Programs like addrom do the trick nicely but it doesn't work on ra    
    GT> 2.50+.  I was hoping someone had found a quicker way of doing it.   
      
   i'm trying to remember if i ever looked at addrom... i think i did way back   
   but still had to manually edit the areas for some reason... probably security   
   or groups or some such... but then i'm kinda weird in how i want my CD rom   
   areas laid out... even areas that get imported into my system via allfix have   
   to be edited... mainly because it doesn't place them in the sequence where i   
   want them placed... it seems to always put them into the first free area   
   instead of at the end or at least in the same area group as the template i   
   told it to use...   
      
    GT> Thank you for your reply,   
      
   one possibility might be to install an older RA that addrom works with and   
   then convert those file areas database files up to 2.6's format... i don't   
   know if that would work well, though... i would attempt it in another set of   
   directories well away from your install you are working on now... and make   
   sure that you don't have any RA environment variables pointing to your final   
   installation... essentially you would have another, older install, set up the   
   files areas, then upgrade it to 2.5 or 2.6... check that the file areas   
   upgraded properly and then copy the file areas files over... files.idx,   
   fgroups.idx and the files/hdr/*.*, files/idx/*.* and files/txt/*.* database   
   files...   
      
   i don't know who wrote addrom but if the sources are pascal and available, i   
   could try to update it with the new structures if no one else could or wanted   
   to... i still have a working compile environment for TP6 and TP7 ;)    
      
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