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  • AREAFIX commands?

    From 2twisty@21:3/166 to All on Fri Apr 1 12:53:09 2022
    I have read over the areafix help file.

    I want to do a %RESCAN of ALL areas. The documentation supplies examples for individual areas, and the syntax notation in the file SAYS that if you just send %RESCAN it will do ALL... However, I get an error message back from AREAFIX saying that it can't figure out what I am doing.

    Do I have to send a %RESCAN for each area or is there really a global way of doing it...like a %RESCAN * or something?

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  • From McDoob@21:4/135 to 2twisty on Fri Apr 1 15:10:38 2022
    I have read over the areafix help file.

    I want to do a %RESCAN of ALL areas. The documentation supplies
    examples for individual areas, and the syntax notation in the file SAYS that if you just send %RESCAN it will do ALL... However, I get an error message back from AREAFIX saying that it can't figure out what I am
    doing.

    Do I have to send a %RESCAN for each area or is there really a global
    way of doing it...like a %RESCAN * or something?

    Yep! %RESCAN * is what you're looking for! Try:

    %RESCAN * 7 days

    to get the last week of messages from all of fsxNet

    McDoob
    SysOp, PiBBS
    pibbs.sytes.net

    ... WOMAN.ZIP - Great program but no documentation

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  • From 2twisty@21:3/166 to McDoob on Fri Apr 1 13:15:33 2022
    %RESCAN * 7 days

    It was the * that I need. That's NOT in the docs!

    Lolz

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to 2twisty on Mon Apr 4 23:04:45 2022
    Re: Re: AREAFIX commands?
    By: 2twisty to McDoob on Fri Apr 01 2022 01:15 pm

    %RESCAN * 7 days

    It was the * that I need. That's NOT in the docs!

    I'm a bit behind in messages - but I wanted to share a couple of points.

    %HELP sends you a help message - with instructions
    %RESCAN will resend you old messages

    Depending on the BBS implementation of tosser functions, %RESCAN behaves differently. Since I use hpt (and I'm your hub) - the syntax is %RESCAN <area> N days, where <area> is a named area (as retrieved from %LIST), or "*" to represent all areas, or "A*" to represent all areas that being with "A" (for example). "N" is the number of days to rescan for, if followed by "days" keyword, otherwise it means the list "N" messages.

    %HELP is normally your first thing use with any hub (and it's mentioned in my welcome email as well) :)


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