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MakeMsgs
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Quicky utility for Juggernaut r.10 to create lots of Message Areas fast.
Usage: MAKEMSGS <pathname> [/tags]
where <pathname> is the pathname to a standard text file.
Example: MAKEMSGS newnet.lst /tags
MAKEMSGS addareas.txt
The text file should contain lines of Titles:
For Sale & Trade
Snoop Dog's DogHouse
The Jimmy Johnson Bashing Society
etc.
Each line is the Title of a Message Area you want to create.
We create these areas with the EchoMail Attributes ON, so they are ready
to be used as EchoMail areas (and anybody using this utility is probably
using them for that purpose).
We also create these areas with "SYSTEM OPERATOR" for the Message-Op name.
You can either use File Manipulations: Search & Replace to adjust these
to your or own name, or just delete PATHS.DAT and restart the BBS and it
will adjust them automatically.
If you specify the optional "/tags" switch, it will create EchoMail AREA
Mapper entries for these new areas using the Title as the AREA/Tag field.
On a multi-node BBS, you take down all downs, run this, then restart the
nodes. That way they each learn about all the new areas you just added.
We look for a couple files (MSGBASES.DAT and USERMSGS) so you should run
this from the same drive as your BBS is on.
With large numbers of file and message areas, I would recommend you use
Alter Pathnames and put the file and message area index files (FAREA###.IDX
and MSGS_###.IDX) into separate directories (so DOS can find them faster).
--John Rohner, Dec 26th 1994