This keyword is used to tell MsgEd TE to read information about netmail and echomail areas from a tosser configuration file. This saves you from double work: You only have to declare an area once in the tosser configuration file, and MsgEd will automatically always display all areas that are configured in your tosser configuration file. The syntax is as follows:
Areafile type filename
The type parameter designates the type of tosser configuration file to
use. It can be `Squish', `Fastecho' or `AreasBBS'. The
filename parameter specifies the path and file name of the tosser
configuration file that should be read. (Plase note that only the area
definitions from a Squish configuration file will be read. If the Squish
configuration file references another `areas.bbs' file, you have to
define it separately for MsgEd TE using a second Areafile
statement).
There is one problem with reading echo definitions from tosser configuration files: Those files do not contain all information that can be specified in a manual area configuration. Certain features of MsgEd TE need a flag that has to be set for each area in order to enable that feature. For example, in order to be able to write mails with umlauts, you must set the 8 flag for each area that should have umlauts.
Therefore, the AreaFileFlags keyword has been introduced. It's syntax
is as follows:
AreaFileFlags flags
The flags parameter has the same syntax as the flags parameter of
the Fido, Quick and Squish keywords (see section 6.5.1 Manual Area Definition). You must specify the
AreaFileFlags keyword before the AreaFile keywords. Then, all
areas imported from the area files will have the specified flags.
If you want only a few, but not all areas form an areafile to have some
flags, you can manually redefine areas with the syntax described in the
preceding section. For this to work, the manual redefinition must come
after the AreaFile keyword. Vice versa, if you want almost all
areas from an areafile to have a certain flag, but want a few exemptions, you
should use the AreaFileFlags and AreaFile keywords to import
all areas from the areafile with the specific flag set. After that, you can
redefine some areas manually without this flag.
Note: Using AreaFileFlags to globally turn on the `u' flag
probably won't hurt you. On the other hand, you should only use
AreaFileFlags to globally turn on the `8' flag if you know that
the moderators of the echo areas that you are posting in do not forbid
8-bit-codes.
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