Re: Importing Message Areas
By: MRO to Digital Man on Fri Apr 17 2026 08:09 pm
> Re: Importing Message Areas
> By: Digital Man to MRO on Thu Apr 16 2026 10:18 am
>
> > > internal code prefix, access requirements and other options.
>
> > > you can't do that with the current formats that are left over, right?
>
> > Nope, but you can by simply copy/pasting the msgs.ini entries (which
> > don't have the same ordering and extensibility issues that the
> > subs.txt entries did).
>
>
> i could do that or something else, but being able to export/export subs.txt
> was useful for people that ran msg networks or sysops who want to carry
> them.
>
> I never had any problem with the subs.txt format and i used it a lot over
> the years. i like the newer .ini formats for things in most cases, but i'm
> surprised you ripped that out.
subs.txt and dirs.txt were missing newer sub-board/directory fields and the form
at was kind of dumb (like all door drop file formats). I'll add some better impo
rt/export formats that'll serve the same purpose, but better.
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