Subj : Badareas.lst location
To   : RickV
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Sep 24 2025 20:33:19

  Re: Badareas.lst location
  By: RickV to Digital Man on Wed Sep 24 2025 09:57 pm

 >
 > Hello Digital!
 >
 > 19 Apr 71 23:13, you wrote to me:
 >
 >  DM>   Re: Badareas.lst location
 >  DM>   By: RickV to All on Wed Sep 24 2025 06:17 pm
 >
 >  >> Hello everybody!
 >  >>
 >  >> So I have my badareas.lst location defined in echocfg like this,
 >  >>
 >  >> ../Logs/badareas.lst
 >  >>
 >  >> But when I go into a message group and want to import the
 >  >> badareas.lst the location is here,
 >  >>
 >  >> ../data/badareas.lst
 >  >>
 >  >> Where else is this location defined so I can have them match?
 >
 >  DM> The only place that is defined is in your ctrl/sbbsecho.ini file
 >  DM> (which can be edited using echocfg) - the default value is
 >  DM> "../data/badareas.lst", so it looks like you changed it: BadAreaFile =
 >  DM> ../data/badareas.lst
 > Yes I did change it to
.../logs/badareas.lst, that's where I want it. But
 > when I try and import the badareas it's shows ../data/badareas.lst, I then
 > have to change it to where the file is. ../logs. Why is it not seeing it
 > where I have it set to? Thanks my question.

Because SCFG doesn't read or write to the sbbsecho.ini file.

 > Could this be a bug?

No, operating as designed.
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