Subj : trying again
To   : Rick Smith
From : Daniel Path
Date : Mon Dec 26 2022 12:03 pm

Hello Rick,

23 Dec 22 07:11, you wrote to All:

 RS> Greetings All!

 RS> I am still waiting to find a working copy of lorabbs but decided to
 RS> give max a try again.. before I get too deep in it I would like to ask
 RS> a couple of you experts a couple things.

 RS> I carry a lot of message areas, can I import them either with
 RS> backbone.na or something similar?

i wrote a bash script for generating a nice msgarea.ctl file, but it was only because my rexx knowledge is rusty, i think there are some small utilities which can synchronize maximus with a backbone.na... i don't remember, but maybe AMU ?

 RS> They already are on the machine I
 RS> am running arca on in squish format which I am running hpt/binkd and
 RS> golded to read.  Will max read my current msg base?

it can read squish format natively, so no problem should occur.

Regards,
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dp

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