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  • Changing a file tic area to passthru

    From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, March 05, 2017 12:42:24
    Hello All!

    According to the docs for File tic area set up .4 setting 0 will mark area as passthru only BUT it will not accept zero, at least on an existing area.

    Want to do so on Daily nodelists that I have no use for (cannot see the point of them) but need to get them for downlinks.

    Is this a bug introduced since 0.93/6 ?


    Vince

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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Vince Coen on Sunday, March 05, 2017 20:58:59
    Hello Vince!

    05 Mar 17 12:42, you wrote to all:

    According to the docs for File tic area set up .4 setting 0 will mark
    area as passthru only BUT it will not accept zero, at least on an
    existing area.

    I don't think Michiel ever truly implemented passthru areas. I looked back at the mbsetup code, and it doesn't appear that it ever allowed changing an existing area to BBS area 0.

    Want to do so on Daily nodelists that I have no use for (cannot see
    the point of them) but need to get them for downlinks.

    Set the area to only keep 1 file. That should minimize the amount of space consumed on your system.

    Is this a bug introduced since 0.93/6 ?

    No, I don't think it is.

    Andrew

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