CD file library

[mattj]

Hi all,

Installed v10 here on a Win 10 32-bit machine. I have a Night Own Best of BBS CD from 1994 that I'd like to put in my file library.

I created a library, read only, and added the Alt file path of D:\ my CD drive. Library on CD is Yes and Read Only is Yes.

I then do a Library Maintenance, then 2 Search for files not logged in, but are present in this library, answer Yes to log in files which are present but not logged in.

It finds the 3 files in the root of the CD but doesn't go into the subdriectories at all....

The subdirectories are named 001A, 002A, etc etc. They all have FILES.BBS's in them too.

Any idea how I can get it to go into the subdirectories?

Thanks much!

-m

[Kracken]

Hi !

For such you need to use GALFILIN.EXE

- One library, one folder (in the Alt. path config of the library)
- All files must be flat, in the root of the folder
- Galfilin supports only proprietary "files.scr" (it doesn't support standard file_id.diz, 00_index.txt or files.bbs)
- It doesn't support Long File Names, so you need to use the 8.3 filename (ie: ELWFAZ~1.ZIP) if you have long names.
- Basically you create the lib in the "File library" module in the BBS, then exit and run from command prompt: galfilin.exe <path_to_scr> <library_id>

Now with a Nightowl CD, you can either create one lib per subfolder (ie: 001A) and then convert the files.bbs into files.scr but that can be tedious.

Many years ago I did some vbscript to automate the process.. after copyin the ISO content into a folder (with its structure), ran the script on it, walking down the structure recursively, putting all files flat in a single new folder (~3200 files!), handling LFN + duplicated (append a _2, _3) while documenting each from either file_id.diz (handling ZIP routine) or files.bbs/00_index/*.cat whichever works first. This way I could add several nightowl/cream of the crops CDs etc. into individual libraries.
Unfortunately Galacticomm file libs supports only one level.
it can be a mess with a lot of CDroms but GALFILKW allow indexin descriptions and searching is quick later on.

I just tested in BBSV10 + Win10 x86 and it still works fine. I dropped couple random files in a folder, ran galfilin_helper.vbs on it, and then imported the files.scr.

[mattj]

Hi, thanks for this... will try it for the future.

I ended up manually creating one File Library per CD directory and importing the files. It did work and it sucked in the FILE_ID.DIZ's too.

Here was my process for others looking to do the same thing:

Create your Alt File Path on your BBS computer: C:\FILES\NOP_BBS (otherwise it will make the folder under the C:\MBBSV10 folder)

Copy your CD to C:\Files\NOP_BBS
Go into File Libraries
then File Operations menu
Create a Library
Name it: NOBBS006
DOS Only, no
Enter a short description: Night Owl Best of BBS: RBBS
Alt file path: c:\files\nop_bbs\006a
CTRL-G to save
Select the library NOBBS006
Log in files to this library
Source path: *
Each file should be processed and scroll by
Exit to the File Library menu
Find Files
Press enter
and it should then show all the files with descriptions imported in

Repeat for each CD's subdirectory of files

Hope this helps someone in the future.

-m