I could pay a little for this, but many sysops could use it. I'd like a
win32 or dos16 bit program that I could pass a directory to that would load a files.bbs file and display with lightbars, the file names for downloading
along with the description on the right. Tagging files would add them to a download list, they'd be viewable (downloads and viewing would be via
external executables that I already have) and downloadable via batch. I
don't think this would be too hard to implement, codefenix already has a sbbs version of this, but I'd like something that could be run on any win32 bbs or dos bbs running on a win32 os using nfu. I've got a mostly functional script for elebbs, but only got it mostly working for one page. It would need to be an executable to run on any win32/dos bbs.

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Shurato wrote to All <=-

I could pay a little for this, but many sysops could use it. I'd like
a win32 or dos16 bit program that I could pass a directory to that
would load a files.bbs file and display with lightbars, the file names
for downloading along with the description on the right. Tagging files would add them to a download list, they'd be viewable (downloads and viewing would be via external executables that I already have) and downloadable via batch. I don't think this would be too hard to implement, codefenix already has a sbbs version of this, but I'd like something that could be run on any win32 bbs or dos bbs running on a
win32 os using nfu. I've got a mostly functional script for elebbs,
but only got it mostly working for one page. It would need to be an executable to run on any win32/dos bbs.

Something like this has to be written for a specific BBS and one that
can support mods like this. You can't just write this that works with
all systems like a BBS door can.

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* In a message originally to Shurato, digimaus said:

Shurato wrote to All <=-

I could pay a little for this, but many sysops could use it. I'd

like

a win32 or dos16 bit program that I could pass a directory to that would load a files.bbs file and display with lightbars, the file

names

for downloading along with the description on the right. Tagging

files

would add them to a download list, they'd be viewable (downloads and viewing would be via external executables that I already have) and downloadable via batch. I don't think this would be too hard to implement, codefenix already has a sbbs version of this, but I'd like something that could be run on any win32 bbs or dos bbs running on a win32 os using nfu. I've got a mostly functional script for elebbs, but only got it mostly working for one page. It would need to be an executable to run on any win32/dos bbs.

Something like this has to be written for a specific BBS and one that
can support mods like this. You can't just write this that works with
all systems like a BBS door can.

Why not? It would just need to be passed a directory and resd the files.bbs from that directory. Can't all bbs's do that?

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Shurato wrote to digimaus <=-

Why not? It would just need to be passed a directory and resd the files.bbs from that directory. Can't all bbs's do that?

No, not all can do it. Telegard and Spitfire, for example, do not use FILES.BBS directly.

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* In a message originally to Shurato, digimaus said:

Shurato wrote to digimaus <=-

Why not? It would just need to be passed a directory and resd the files.bbs from that directory. Can't all bbs's do that?

No, not all can do it. Telegard and Spitfire, for example, do not use FILES.BBS directly.

The BBS doesn't have to use it, it just has to be able to create one. My system doesn't use files.bbs, but it can create them so any software capable
of using them would be supported. I'm trying for easy here.

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On 13 Nov 25 18:49:00, Shurato said the following to All:

I could pay a little for this, but many sysops could use it. I'd like a win32 or dos16 bit program that I could pass a directory to that would load files.bbs file and display with lightbars, the file names for downloading along with the description on the right. Tagging files would add them to a

There must be several external doors that already do this.

The problem is that there are at least several iterations of Files.bbs; as far as I know there was never a "standard" format.

Nick

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* In a message originally to Shurato, Atreyu said:

On 13 Nov 25 18:49:00, Shurato said the following to All:

I could pay a little for this, but many sysops could use it. I'd like

a

win32 or dos16 bit program that I could pass a directory to that would

load

files.bbs file and display with lightbars, the file names for

downloading

along with the description on the right. Tagging files would add them

to a

There must be several external doors that already do this.

The problem is that there are at least several iterations of Files.bbs; as far as I know there was never a "standard" format.

There is wareztag, but it doesn't allow viewing, exyernal prots and doesn't work right if a descruption is missing.

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Atreyu wrote to Shurato <=-

The problem is that there are at least several iterations of Files.bbs;
as far as I know there was never a "standard" format.

I know of at least six different FILES.BBS formats.

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Atreyu wrote to Shurato <=-

The problem is that there are at least several iterations of

Files.bbs;

as far as I know there was never a "standard" format.

I know of at least six different FILES.BBS formats.

My system supports the RA standard, with spaces delimiting the fields and another standard with + in front of lines that are descriptions. I've sent both file standards a person who may be working on this for me.

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On 17 Nov 25 13:02:27, Digimaus said the following to Atreyu:

The problem is that there are at least several iterations of Files.bbs; as far as I know there was never a "standard" format.

I know of at least six different FILES.BBS formats.

Extended-descriptions in all of them were always "interesting" to parse.

Nick

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On 17 Nov 25 10:04:00, Shurato said the following to Atreyu:

The problem is that there are at least several iterations of Files.bbs; as far as I know there was never a "standard" format.

There is wareztag, but it doesn't allow viewing, exyernal prots and doesn't work right if a descruption is missing.

I'm sure theres another file-door besides wareztag.

Theres always the old Ez-Rom door...

Nick

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On 17 Nov 25 10:04:00, Shurato said the following to Atreyu:

The problem is that there are at least several iterations of Files.bbs;

as

far as I know there was never a "standard" format.

There is wareztag, but it doesn't allow viewing, exyernal prots and

doesn't

work right if a descruption is missing.

I'm sure theres another file-door besides wareztag.

Theres always the old Ez-Rom door...

That uses light bars? There's atag, which uses RA file bases and isn't compatible with ele. There's also datag, but that locks up on a regular
basis and has an unreliable crack instead of a reg key generator. I've been looking for this for a while now... Oh, and xfl, but that doesn't honor free areas, only individual free files and there's no way to globally change that. Also TUFM, but that gives regular NTVDM errors. All that I've found have
major problems. Sorry for the typos in that last message, I was using connectbot and it no longer supports voice dictation now that I stopped using the hacker's keyboard due to other issues with it...

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Shurato wrote to digimaus <=-

My system supports the RA standard, with spaces delimiting the fields
and another standard with + in front of lines that are descriptions.
I've sent both file standards a person who may be working on this for
me.

The problem with standards is that there's so many to choose from.

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Atreyu wrote to Digimaus <=-

Extended-descriptions in all of them were always "interesting" to
parse.

There is a standard for FILE_ID.DIZ but in my 30 years of being a sysop,
I've never seen a FILES.BBS standard.

MBSE uses this sytle which I believe a lot of BBSes use:

CZ47.RAR [0] Chinese Zodiac v4.7 written by Sean Dennis
+Have you ever wondered what your Chinese
+Zodiac sign is? Now you can find out!
+For any BBS that supports 16-bit DOS doors
+and a FOSSIL driver. Freeware! Another
+Cheepware production.

I'd say that's easier to parse than Maximus' native FILES.BBS standard.

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That uses light bars? There's atag, which uses RA file bases and isn't

No, EZ-ROM does not.

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On 17 Nov 25 18:32:00, Shurato said the following to Atreyu:

Theres always the old Ez-Rom door...

That uses light bars? There's atag, which uses RA file bases and isn't compatible with ele. There's also datag, but that locks up on a regular basis and has an unreliable crack instead of a reg key generator. I've been

I have no idea. I only suggested that before you start having someone write all kinds of code... to do a search on file-doors already out there.

Nick

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On 17 Nov 25 18:32:00, Shurato said the following to Atreyu:

Theres always the old Ez-Rom door...

That uses light bars? There's atag, which uses RA file bases and isn't
compatible with ele. There's also datag, but that locks up on a

regular

basis and has an unreliable crack instead of a reg key generator. I've

been

I have no idea. I only suggested that before you start having someone write all kinds of code... to do a search on file-doors already
out there.

Yeah, thanks. I have, as I've listed a bunch of them. None of them work properly.

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