Subj : Badareas.lst location
To   : Gamgee
From : RickV
Date : Thu Sep 25 2025 12:46:31

Hello Gamgee!

21 Apr 71 01:34, you wrote to me:

 Ga> -=> RickV wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 Ri>>> So I have my badareas.lst location defined in echocfg like this,
 Ri>>> ../Logs/badareas.lst

 Ri>>> But when I go into a message group and want to import the
 Ri>>> badareas.lst the location is here,

 Ri>>> ../data/badareas.lst

 DC>> Why would you do that?  (put it in a Logs directory).

 DC>> It's not a log.  It's a list of bad (undefined) echo areas.  Keep
 DC>> it in ../data where it belongs, and where other parts of SBBS
 DC>> expect it to be.  Sheesh.

 Ri>> Ok, but don't you think it should work as defined in the config
 Ri>> setting you set? Also why then is it DEFINABLE?

 Ga> Well, yes.  I got curious and went to check what you're saying.  I
 Ga> changed the defined location of 'badareas.lst' (in sbbsecho.ini, using
 Ga>  Echocfg).  Then I went into SCFG/Message Areas/Message Group/Import
 Ga>  Areas/badareas.lst ... and ... it still showed the location as
 Ga>  ../data/badareas.lst .  So it does appear to be broken, as you said.

 Ga> Digitalman - seems like this is a bug to me.  The function in SCFG is
 Ga> not reading the defined location of 'badareas.lst' and seems
 Ga> hard-wired to ../data/badareas.lst .


Digital Man did say "it's operating as designed", so for some reason that's the way it suppose to be.


RickV


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