Subj : areas.bbs question
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Fri Apr 05 2019 02:05 am

Hello Michiel!

04 Apr 19 23:09, you wrote to all:

 MV> There is a new UTF-8 capable FTN editor around and I run into a
 MV> mismatch between the areas.bbs file produced by Fmail and this new
 MV> goAtEd thing.

 MV> Fmail creates an areas.bbs that that starts like this:

 MV> 2:280/5555 ! Michiel van der Vlist
 MV> ; Created by FConfig-W32-2.0.1.2 - Thu Apr 04 22:44:12 2019
 MV> !\FIDO\JAM\ALLFIX              ALLFIX_HELP          2:203/0 280/464 55
 MV> !\FIDO\JAM\BBACHCONINFO        BBACH.CON.INFO       2:280/5003 5555.1
 MV> !\FIDO\JAM\BINKD               BINKD                2:203/0 221/6 280/

 MV> Note the first line. Goated interpretes it as an area definition and
 MV> creates an area with a tag of "!". Obviously not what was meant. If I
 MV> put a ';' in front of that first line, all is well.

 MV> So who's got it right? Should Goated ignore that first line, or should
 MV> Fmail put a ';' in front of it?

My personal inclination is that Fmail should put a ';' in front of it, as that 
line is not a valid area definition.

Andrew

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