Subj : clean up To : Kevin Klement From : Mike Tripp Date : Sun Jul 13 2008 02:31 pm Hello Kevin! 12 Jul 08 13:39, Kevin Klement wrote to All: KK> I'm running MS-DOS versions of Seal and Squish, the fidonet backbone KK> echo areas is now a small 200 areas, my squish.cfg needs a clean up of KK> dead echo areas. KK> Any quick way of doing this? DROP will both clean up the SQUISH.CFG entries and delete the message data files for the area. I assume you are looking for an easy way to identify which tags to drop, based on the criteria that they no longer are listed in the .NA file? If so, you can force SEAL to update the descriptions for the areas on the ;EchoSpec lines with: SEAL DESCRIBE E <.NA filename> -FORCED Without -FORCED, only missing descriptions are updated with current ones...so the old lines will still have their old descriptions that were added when the area was first created. Adding -FORCED will change them to blank, "(no description available)", or whatever SEAL.INI has defined as DefaultDescription. After that, a little FIND on the "no description" string and search-n-replace magic is all it takes to make a .BAT with one SEAL DROP E line per area. Scan the tags to make sure you don't accidentally delete local or regional echoes that either don't appear in the .NA or come from another uplink. Setting GroupLines to "yes" may also be helpful if you normally see each ;EchoSpec line immediately after its corresponding EchoArea line. It toggles them from being interleaved to listed as a block of EchoArea lines and separate block of ;EchoSpec lines. Don't forget to run SEAL UPDATE to have it rewrite the SQUISH.CFG after toggling the setting in SEALCFG or directly in SEAL.INI. I recently had a downlink leave and then come back, and PAUSE / RESUME would do pretty much what you're after more simply since it won't RESUME areas that aren't found in the .NA with your uplink...but it doesn't like your own address or the feed address as an argument. ..\\ike --- GoldED/2 2.50+ * Origin: -=( The TechnoDrome )=- Austin,TX 512-327-8598 33.6k (1:382/61) .