Hello You All!!!
How Many of You have had problems when trying to use the contents of a CD
when it's not in the right format? I've made this little program to convert
the INDEX file in the right format for the Excelsior! BBS all you have to
do is to Build your areas in BBS:Fbase/Aminet/XXX where XXX is the name of
the nested directory contained in the CD.
Let's verify the usage with an Example:
Let's you have a CD in which is a directory 'CD0:Aminet/Comm/misc' and your
areas (the main path excluding the smartpath) are stored in:
'BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/'
so you will have a directory as this :
'BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/misc'
Now if you have rightly set up the area, now use my little program to create
the Files.BBS compatible with E!, in this Way:
Rx BBS:Xfiles4 Comm misc Aminet_0294
Where:
* Comm is the directory nested in CD0:Aminet/
* misc is the directory nested in CD0:Aminet/comm/
* Aminet is the directory nested in BBS:Fbase/
The final File.BBS file, will be stored in the dir:
'BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/misc'
A suggestion is NOT to use the smart path, with this kind of CD as I think
it's not usefull and safe, better type a long series of Alternate Path listed
in the Ex.BBSPath file. Here I include my smartpath list to make you under-
stand:
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# BBSPaths
#
# Path number, path1, path2, path3, path4, path5...
#
# Path# 99 denotes the "TRASHCAN" path. This is where deleted files are
# held until further deletion.
1,BBS:Fbase/
2,BBS:Mbase/
# Path Per il Cd Shareware di Windows
3,CD0:,BBS:Fbase/
#Path Per l'Aminet 02 '94
4,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/biz/,CD0:Aminet/biz/dbase,CD0:Aminet/biz/demo,CD0:Aminet/biz/misc,CD0:Aminet/biz/patch
5,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/comm/,CD0:Aminet/comm/bbs,CD0:Aminet/comm/envoy,CD0:Aminet/comm/fido,CD0:Aminet/comm/mail,CD0:Aminet/comm/misc,CD0:Aminet/comm/net,CD0:Aminet/comm/news,CD0:Aminet/
comm/term,CD0:Aminet/comm/ums,CD0:Aminet/comm/uucp,CD0:Aminet/comm/bbs/Excel,CD0:Aminet/comm/bbs/dlg
6,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/demo/,CD0:Aminet/demo/Euro,CD0:Aminet/demo/tg93
7,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/dev/,CD0:Aminet/dev/amos,CD0:Aminet/dev/asm,CD0:Aminet/dev/c,CD0:Aminet/dev/cross,CD0:Aminet/dev/debug,CD0:Aminet/dev/docs,CD0:Aminet/dev/e,CD0:Aminet/dev/gcc,CD0:
Aminet/dev/gui,CD0:Aminet/dev/lang,CD0:Aminet/dev/m2,CD0:Aminet/dev/misc,CD0:Aminet/dev/moni,CD0:Aminet/dev/obero,CD0:Aminet/dev/src
8,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/disk/,CD0:Aminet/disk/bakup/,CD0:Aminet/disk/cache/,CD0:Aminet/disk/cdrom/,CD0:Aminet/disk/copy/,CD0:Aminet/disk/misc/,CD0:Aminet/disk/moni/,CD0:Aminet/disk/optim/
,CD0:Aminet/disk/salv/
9,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/game/,CD0:Aminet/game/demo,CD0:Aminet/game/gag,CD0:Aminet/game/hint,CD0:Aminet/game/jump,CD0:Aminet/game/misc,CD0:Aminet/game/patch,CD0:Aminet/game/role,CD0:Aminet
/game/shoot,CD0:Aminet/game/think
10,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/gfx/3d,CD0:Aminet/gfx/3dobj,CD0:Aminet/gfx/anim,CD0:Aminet/gfx/conv,CD0:Aminet/gfx/edit,CD0:Aminet/gfx/fract,CD0:Aminet/gfx/misc,CD0:Aminet/gfx/opal,CD0:Aminet/gf
x/pbm,CD0:Aminet/gfx/show,CD0:Aminet/gfx/x11
11,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/hard/,CD0:Aminet/hard/anno,CD0:Aminet/hard/drivr,CD0:Aminet/hard/hack,CD0:Aminet/hard/misc,CD0:Aminet/hard/test
12,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/Info/,CD0:Aminet/Info/adt,CD0:Aminet/Info/sites,CD0:Aminet/Info/start,CD0:Aminet/Info/stats
13,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/Misc/,CD0:Aminet/Misc/amag,CD0:Aminet/Misc/edu,CD0:Aminet/Misc/emu,CD0:Aminet/Misc/math,CD0:Aminet/Misc/misc,CD0:Aminet/Misc/sci,CD0:Aminet/Misc/unix
14,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/Mods/,CD0:Aminet/Mods/chart,CD0:Aminet/Mods/misc
15,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/Mus/,CD0:Aminet/Mus/edit,CD0:Aminet/Mus/midi,CD0:Aminet/Mus/misc,CD0:Aminet/Mus/play,CD0:Aminet/Mus/smpl
16,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/OS20/
17,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/OS30/
18,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/PIX/
19,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/Text/
20,BBS:Fbase/Aminet_0294/,CD0:Aminet/Util/
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These works fine with the aminet CD from Walnut Creek of 02/94.
The programs is PD and I hope it will make your life easier.
The Program is incredible Simple in Understanding its usage, so i think this
should be all for Today. If You have any question you can contact me via FIDO
At Address
2:332/532.0>Massimiliano Pala
Or via Gateway Internet at:
Massimiliano.Pala@p0.f532.n332.z2.fidonet.org
Or just call at my site BBS : ++39-59-370262
Or Just Write me at : Pala Massimiliano
Via Sassari N.20
41100 Modena (MO)
Italy
Ok, that's truly the end, in the hope my work will please you and that aminet
organizers send me a CD of the Aminet Series, I Thanks you all and I say you
a Very Big GOOOOOOODBYE!!!!
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