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Setting up groups is very easy if you read all your area definitions form a tosser configuration file (see Reading a Tosser Configuration File (Areafile)). If your tosser stores group information and MsgEd TE supports reading it, then MsgEd TE will automatically take over the tosser’s group definitions. This is currently supported for ‘Fidoconfig’ and ‘Fastecho’ type areafiles.
For ‘Fidoconfig’, the names of the MsgEd TE area groups will be the same names as the ‘Fidoconfig’ group names. However, be aware that fidoconfig group names are case sensitive, while MsgEd TE group names are not. So, members of two different groups with names that, in the fidoconfig file, only differ in upper/lower case spelling will be members of the same group in MsgEd TE.
For ‘Fastecho’, the names of the MsgEd TE area groups will be the names that you have defined in fesetup in the ‘System/Group names’ menu. If you did not set up group names for some or all areas, those areas will have a name of ‘Fastecho Group X’, where ‘X’ is the letter that is used to identify the group in Fastecho.
The easiest way to find out about which group names MsgEd TE has created based on the areafile information is to press Ctrl-G in the message area list. This will show a menu of all groups.
If you do not want to read any sort of group setup from the tosser
configuration file, then you can turn off the UseTosserGroup
switch by
adding Switch UserTosserGroup Off
to your MsgEd TE configuration
file. This has to be done before the Areafile
statement to which this
setting should apply.
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