Hi All,

Forgive me if I cover old ground (or that I'm missing the very obvious).

I have several CD-ROMs full of software/stuff that I'd like to upload to my BBS. This afternoon I've been playing around with Mutil and Import_FILES.BBS which works very nicely. But requires that I create a database entry for the file base and declare the subdirectory holding the files.

Is there anyway of auto-magically creating the required File Bases in the database based on an existing directory structure?

Thanks!

Steve

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* Origin: Gryphus BBS (21:2/104)

Is there anyway of auto-magically creating the required File Bases in the database based on an existing directory structure?

Yes it can be done with Mutil.

You need to create a filebone.na file that has the filebase name and
directory structure you want to import, this example is a .na file I made to import a NightOwl 20 CD.

AREA 001A 0 ! [NO20] ASP Member Submissions
AREA 002A 0 ! [NO20] BBS Listings
etc etc....
This is a specific layout to has to be used so that Mutil will import it correctly, AREA is followed by the directory then the 0 and the ! which has
to do with how it imports then the name you want to call the file area [NO20] whatever.

Once you have the cdname.na file done make a custom mutil.ini file and adjust the settings in the Import_FILEBONE.NA Stanza to suit your setup, save it all and run Mutil....

If all was configured properly it should all magically appear in the correct group and all.

Hope this helps!!

Cheers
Lloyd.

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Is there anyway of auto-magically creating the required File Bases in database based on an existing directory structure?

Yes it can be done with Mutil.

You need to create a filebone.na file that has the filebase name

Thanks Lloyd, and "Yes" that helps. Points me in the right direction.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A38 2018/01/01 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Gryphus BBS (21:2/104)