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    From Irish_Monk@1337:3/168 to All on Mon Sep 5 17:06:12 2022
    Hello All,

    Is there a way to have filefix send files that are not new. With Areafix you can do this with messages by using the %RESCAN command. Not seeing anything for the file part tho. any suggestions or know how to do this?

    Thanks!!

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  • From MeaTLoTioN@1337:1/101 to Irish_Monk on Thu Sep 8 15:32:52 2022
    On 05 Sep 2022, Irish_Monk said the following...

    Hello All,

    Is there a way to have filefix send files that are not new. With Areafix you can do this with messages by using the %RESCAN command. Not seeing anything for the file part tho. any suggestions or know how to do this?

    Sadly there isn't a way to rescan file bases, this is likely due to when fido style nets were using modems back in the day, you could easily force a hub to be locked up for days if you rescaned file bases, so I don't think that functionality was ever implemented.

    I hope this helps.

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  • From Irish_Monk@1337:3/168 to MeaTLoTioN on Thu Sep 8 20:18:56 2022
    Sadly there isn't a way to rescan file bases, this is likely due to when fido style nets were using modems back in the day, you could easily
    force a hub to be locked up for days if you rescaned file bases, so I don't think that functionality was ever implemented.

    I hope this helps.

    Yeah, that definitely makes sense. Thank you for the response!!

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  • From deon@1337:2/101 to Irish_Monk on Sat Sep 10 11:59:28 2022
    Re: filefix
    By: Irish_Monk to All on Mon Sep 05 2022 05:06 pm

    Howdy,

    Is there a way to have filefix send files that are not new. With Areafix you can do this with messages by using the %RESCAN command. Not seeing anything for the file part tho. any suggestions or know how to do this?

    This is a software (file tosser) feature - that depends on the file tosser of your hub.

    Mystic, being an all in 1 BBS/mailer/tosser doesnt have that feature (AFAIK), but Hub 2 (me), which I use binkd/hpt does (kinda). You can re-request files be sent to you (each listed by name/area), not a general %RESCAN all feature like you can with echomail.


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  • From Irish_Monk@1337:3/168 to deon on Sat Sep 10 08:34:14 2022
    This is a software (file tosser) feature - that depends on the file
    tosser of your hub.

    Mystic, being an all in 1 BBS/mailer/tosser doesnt have that feature (AFAIK), but Hub 2 (me), which I use binkd/hpt does (kinda). You can re-request files be sent to you (each listed by name/area), not a
    general %RESCAN all feature like you can with echomail.


    Thanks for the response. Thats what Ive been being told and I understand why now. With it being like that, I will probably just download the files and put them in the proper file bases, instead of going thru filefix. Im learning things everyday and its a blast!!!

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