Hey Siggi!
On Mon, Feb 03 2025 05:46:40 -0600, you wrote:
Example:
AreaName1 ...... Description
AreaName123 ...... Description
...
Following up on this, I just did an areafix request from my BBS to my HPT hub, and it looks like your example above is incorrect.
What I see here on a 80 character wide terminal is basically a left justified areatag with a whitespace after, then right justified descriptions, in quotes, with a whitespace before the open quote, then periods in between them:
*S AFTERSHOCK .......................... "Aftershock Android Client Support" *S ALL-POLITICS ....................................... "Politics Unlimited" *S ALLFIX_FILE ........................... "Allfix File Announce Conference"
...
So there is definitely some formatting going on, it's just not what WinPoint needs.. correct?
Is your areafix response different from mine? If so, maybe there were some formatting changes of this output between 2020 and 2024 (our hpt version differences in years).
I always compare with FastEcho and Filescan, which both send an
ordered list as an email, always with the same decorum between area
and description. And is then integrated into WinPoint with 2-3 clicks
;-)
HPT also seems to send an ordered list via netmail. It's just not the same order that FastEcho, Filescan, or WinPoint use. I see why you are asking this, but there are other methods to achieve the list you want:
If I remember right, some (or all) of these scripts may even come with the husky sources, or at least might have at one time; I've had them for a long time, so I don't remember ;):
fconf2na.pl - This one is probably what you're looking for. That should change your fidoconf 'areas' file to a FIDONET.NA format, which I *think* would produce what you're looking for.
Then there are others (fconf2aquaed, fconf2areasbbs.pl, fconf2binkd, fconf2fidogate, fconf2golded, fconf2msged, fconf2squish, fconf2tornado, fecfg2fconf, etc).
Then my query has been answered, thank you.
I honestly don't think copy/pasting a netmailed areafix response is the proper way to go about this, even though with some other tossers you are able to do that with. All of the above scripts I mentioned do exactly what you're looking for, and for multiple formats (FIDONET.NA is probably one of the most common, though, and might even be what FastEcho, Filescan, and WinPoint are based on).
In case you don't see it in the sources, give this a shot and let me know how it goes:
https://pharcyde.org/fconf2na.pl
Regards,
Nick
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