mlF> yeah, i've always done these chores manually and written them off    
    mlF> as part of the task of setting up and configuring a system...    
    mlF> once it is done, that's another task removed from the TODO list ;)   
      
    GT> I have always done things the same way but when I was given an    
    GT> entire bbs collection of CDs things changed...:)   
      
   i hear that :)    
      
   speaking of bbs cd collections, i've been looking, for years, to find the set   
   that had the RADIST areas on it... there were only maybe three or four cds   
   with those areas... i haven't found them so i can replace what i lost of my RA   
   files years back in a crash... i don't remember what set it was that did it   
   but i'm sure that it wasn't night owl and there's another one that wasn't it   
   but i can't think of the name... the time period would be back before ronnie   
   toth passed away... she was the one that started and maintained the RADIST   
   areas...   
      
    mlF> one possibility might be to install an older RA that addrom works    
    mlF> with and then convert those file areas database files up to 2.6's    
    mlF> format... i don't know if that would work well, though... i would    
    mlF> attempt it in another set of directories well away from your    
    mlF> install you are working on now... and make sure that you don't    
    mlF> have any RA environment variables pointing to your final    
    mlF> installation...   
      
    GT> I did try that trick but for some reason areas created by addrom    
    GT> became corrupted after the upgrade.  I'm not sure exactly why....   
      
   ewww... that's weird... all the other areas were fine? just not the ones   
   created by addrom??   
      
    GT> If only RA came with a command-line utility for adding areas :)    
      
   i hear that... i had something i was working on years ago but shelved it for   
   various reasons... i might see if i can find it in the mountain of code   
   stashed behind the door...   
      
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