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   Gamgee to Digital Man   
   Re: Badareas.lst location   
   25 Sep 25 13:51:07   
   
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   -=> Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-   
      
    DM>   Re: Re: Badareas.lst location   
    DM>   By: Gamgee to RickV on Thu Sep 25 2025 09:19 am   
      
    > Digitalman - seems like this is a bug to me.  The function in SCFG is   
    > not reading the defined location of 'badareas.lst' and seems hard-wired   
    > to ../data/badareas.lst .   
      
    DM> That's just the default value in the input dialog; typing a different   
    DM> value overrides the default.   
      
   Okay, understood.   
      
    DM> Yes in theory, SCFG could read the sbbsecho.ini file to find whatever   
    DM> path/filename the sysop chose to name that file. However, a sysop can   
    DM> create/use multiple sbbsecho configuration files (they don't have to be   
    DM> ctrl/sbbsecho.ini), so SCFG wouldn't magically know how to find any   
    DM> other non-default SBBSecho config files.   
      
   That seems a pretty niche use-case - I'd guess that VERY few sysops are    
   using multiple sbbsecho.ini files.  If somebody *was*, then yes I could    
   see how they might need to type in a new value in the input dialog to    
   import that badareas.lst into SCFG.  But for the other 99% ...?  To be    
   fair - I see ZERO reason to change it from the default location anyway.   
      
   I guess my question then is - does the location specified in    
   sbbsecho.ini for the badareas.lst file actually make that file get    
   created/updated in the location specified?  Or will it always go to    
   ../data ?   
      
    DM> If you think it's a bug, file a bug report.   
      
   I don't have the issue myself, and use the default location for    
   badareas.lst ... was just conversing with the OP.  I will let him worry    
   about a bug report, if he desires.  :-)  Thanks.   
      
      
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