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6.5.1 Manual Area Definition

You can manually define a message area by putting a line of the following format into your configuration file:

format flags "description" path areatag [address]

Except for the address parameter, all parameters are mandatory. The meaning of these parameters is as follows:

format

The format parameter tells the message base format this message area is held in. It can be either ‘Fido’, designating a message area in Fido *.MSG file format, ‘Quick’, desingating a message area held in a QuickBBS or Hudson Message Base, ‘Squish’, designating a message area in the Squish format, or ‘Jam’, designating a message area in the JAM format (Jam will only be enable when MsgEd TE was compiled with Smapi 2.0 or higher).

flags

The flags parameter is a sequence of characters where each character is a flag that toggles a certain option. The following flags can be used:

  1. Flags that specify the message area type. You have to use exactly one of those:
    m - netmail area,
    e - echomail area,
    l - local mail area.
    
  2. Flags that toggle certain special features of MsgEd TE. All of these flags are optional. See Advanced Concepts in MsgEd TE, for more information on the meaning of these flags.
    8 - allow 8 bit characters with the proper @CHRS kludge,
    u - enable internet gateway support for this area,
    n - this flag is obsolete.
    
  3. Default message attributes for messages written in this area. You should specify ‘p’ for netmail areas. The ‘loc’ flag will always be set, so you can’t specify it here.
    p - private,
    h - hold,
    k - kill/sent,
    d - direct.
    
description

The description parameter specifies the name under which the area will appear in the area selection screen. It may contain white spaces if you place it between quotation marks.

path

The path parameter gives the location of the message area. For Fido *.MSG areas, this is the path name of the corresponding directory. For QuickBBS areas, it is the area number. For Squish and Jam areas, it is the base name of the area files without extension.

areatag

The areatag parameter gives the official area tag of this area. You must specify this parameter for echomail areas, and you must not specify this for netmail areas!

address

Finally, the address parameter specifies the FTN address to use for this area. You must use this for othernet areas where you must use an AKA different to your main AKA.

Here are some examples:

Fido   mup "Fidonet Netmail" e:\fido\netmail   2:2476/418.0
Squish eu  "MsgEd Support"   e:\fido\sq\msged  MSGED_ECHO
Squish eu8 "OS/2 Debate"     e:\fido\sq\os2deb OS2.DEBATE.GER
Squish eu  "c't conference"  e:\fido\sq\ctger  CT.GER  21:492/2851.0
Quick  lp  "To Sysop Area"   1

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