Re: Importing Message Areas
By: Digital Man to MRO on Wed Apr 15 2026 10:39 am

for running your own msgnetwork or joining one.

I plan to add a .ini and/or .json import option, but there's already
7 other import formats, certainly one of them would work almost
as well (?).

well with subs.txt format you could import the sub name, short name, internal code prefix, access requirements and other options.

you can't do that with the current formats that are left over, right?


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Re: Importing Message Areas
By: MRO to Digital Man on Thu Apr 16 2026 02:20 am

Re: Importing Message Areas
By: Digital Man to MRO on Wed Apr 15 2026 10:39 am

for running your own msgnetwork or joining one.

I plan to add a .ini and/or .json import option, but there's already
7 other import formats, certainly one of them would work almost
as well (?).

well with subs.txt format you could import the sub name, short name, 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).
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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.


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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 format was kind of dumb (like all door drop file formats). I'll add some better import/export formats that'll serve the same purpose, but better.
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Re: Importing Message Areas
By: Digital Man to MRO on Fri Apr 17 2026 10:01 pm

subs.txt and dirs.txt were missing newer sub-board/directory fields
and the format was kind of dumb (like all door drop file formats).
I'll add some better import/export formats that'll serve the same
purpose, but better.

yeah you're right. that's good news, it would be good to have a better replacement.


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