Subj : Importing FILE_ID.DIZ
To   : Liquid Memory
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Dec 03 2000 02:34 pm

RE: Importing FILE_ID.DIZ
BY: Liquid Memory to Odysseus on Mon Dec 04 2000 12:30 am

 >  >  > Secondly, For some reason I can't my File Bases to see the "FILE_ID.DI
 >  >  > and Im stuck having to manually editing the descriptions.. is there an
 >  >  > way of having these descriptions validated?
 >  >
 >  > Synchronet comes pre-configured to import DIZ's automatically.  But, you 
 >  > copy PKZIP.EXE and PKUNZIP.EXE into your SBBS\EXEC directory, or they mus
 >  > in your path.  Putting them in SBBS\EXEC is recommended.
 >  >
 >  > Also, refer to the ADDFILES section of the sysop documentation if you've 
 >  > lot of files ot upload.
 >  >
 >  > PG
 > 
 > Also, you can only import file_id.diz through the BBS, ADDFILES.EXE will not
 > import the file_id.diz from the zip file.  

Yes it will (that's what the /Z option is for).

Rob

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