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- Update File Sections:
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- You RUN this inside the same folder as MUBBS. It's a cheap HACK
- that may become a "sysop" callable module.
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- It reads the folders inside of the "files" folder and makes your
- directory files FOR YOU !
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- It pretty much leaves your EXISTING file sections alone.
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- If you have added NEW folders, you run this program and it adds the
- new directories needed to make it appear to the user.
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- Your folders can be 3 levels deep. Like this:
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- ":files:folder1:folder2:folder3"
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- You can name your folders up to 15 characters long (if it's
- longer the user doesn't see all the characters).
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- KEEP THOSE NAMES SHORT !
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- Names can get real long if they are 3 folders deep like:
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- ":files:Abignameforaexample:andanothernamethat'slong:andyoulose"
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- This is NOT necessary and is quite silly.
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- The FIRST character of each FOLDER WITHIN A FOLDER *MUST* be
- different than any other folder's FIRST CHARACTER. This is what
- the user selects to get into the folder. You should CAPITILIZE
- the folders first character and make the others lower case. Even
- second words like this: "Module source".
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- If there's two folders named "Joe" and "Jack", if the user picks
- "J" it will probably pick the first "J" it finds (Jack) and they
- will never be able to pick it. In this situation you could name
- them: "Joe" and "1 jack".
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- Most characters are valid, don't use ":" ! Try to use letters first,
- then if you run out of characters, use numbers next.
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- You can have as many folders within one folder that you want. It is
- HIGHLY recomended to classify your files AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. It
- makes it much NICER for your users. Remember you may be 1 out of
- 1000 people using your system, please make it nice for your users.
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- There are several "empty" sections set up for you when MUBBS is
- archived. You can remove these as you wish.
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- The first number in a directory determines WHAT type of directory it
- is.
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- 1= A directory of folders.
- 2= A directory of FILES, but it prints a "menu" file called
- "filemenu.txt" or "filemenu.ansi" before showing the ":"
- prompt to the user.
- 3= A directory of FILES, the system AUTOMATICLY generates
- a menu of folders for you ! (I recomend this because
- you can change your files around eaiser !)
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- If it is set to 2 or 3, the Update File Sections Program leaves the
- directory alone.
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