Subj : %HELP ?
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Jan 18 2017 08:08 pm


 On 2017 Jan 18 17:41:36, you wrote to Nick Andre:

 ML>>> personally speaking, i try to have a complete help for each areafix
 ML>>> that i have to work with... sadly that's not always possible... some
 ML>>> of the ones i have to work with are hpt, fastecho, dbridge, fmail,
 ML>>> mystic, vfido, bbbs,

 NA>> Oh c'mon now... now you're regressing back to your nonsense bizarre
 NA>> ranting.

 NA>> How freaking difficult is it for you to use Areafix? You need to
 NA>> collect different "help" screens? WTF?

 WV> I don't think that's so bizarre. I'm doing it too. The basic functions
 WV> (adding and removing areas) are simpel and almost everywhere the same.

thank you...

 WV> But when you are doing something less common, like for instance
 WV> rescanning, the syntax is often different. And I don't want to wait
 WV> (sometimes) hours, before you get a reply to your %HELP.

this actually depends on the remote system's mail tossing schedule... if you 
were linked here, you'd wait up to an hour in 99% of the cases... why? because 
i process mail once an hour to save wear and tear on the system...

 WV> It's quite easy to save the reply message to a %HELP once you got it
 WV> for a later time when you "need" it...

there is that and it only works for those systems that even send such back... 
some do and some do not... heck, i've installed numerous tossers over the years 
so i could find and save out their areafix.hlp file only to not find one at 
all... some were hardcoded with such and others didn't have one at all do 
downlinks had to ask the sysop what the commands were, if they even knew, or 
they had to ask the sysop to add and remove areas or even to rescan some if 
that was an option...

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