JS-Config
                             ===========


JS-Config  is  a GUI frontend for JS_Toss. It allows you to manipulate
all  echo  settings  (like  description,  name, readonly, etc) and the
echos  your  links  are  connected to. In fakt JS-Config allows you to
work with the area and zone config files.

It  also  has a simple CLI option which allows a complete check of all
config files, i.e. updating readonly settings or removing locked echos
or deleting unused old are config files and so on.

JS-Config  may  be  started  from  Workbench or CLI. From Workbench it
opens  its GUI window (see below). If started from CLI with no options
it  also  opens the GUI window. But if you may use a command option to
let it simple work and quit.

This CLI options are supported:

SCAN    checks all area and zone config files and correctes them
        (e.g. the readonly settings, locked settings, deletes unused
        area config files, updates zone config files if so unknown
        echos were found - see below in "logical errors")



If you use the GUI window you get many listviews, some string gadgets
and some buttons.

You  may  choose  the zone you want to edit, change the name of areas,
add  or remove them or change their description. It is possible to add
or  remove lock and readonly patterns for addresses. On the right part
of  the  window  you can select a link address, change its (un)packer,
add  or  remove  areas  and  change  the  read-only  status. It is not
possible to set a (un)packer for Sysop and BBS.

While the config files are loaded and before they are saved all config
data are checked for logical errors as in SCAN option.


                            Logical errors
                            --------------

A  special  check  routine  is started in SCAN mode, after loading the
config  files  and before saving the configs. This checks all area and
zone  configs  for  readonly and locked settings that are different in
the zone or area configs.

If a link is locked for an area this area is removed for it, if a link
is  set  readonly  for  an  area by a readonly pattern or the readonly
switch the other one is set, too.


                                Future
                                ------

In  later releases there will be a complete config option for the main
config file "MAIL:JS_TOSS.CFG".


                          Past - the History
                          ------------------

Version 1.00  :  first release

        1.00b :  same bug as JS_Toss with config read routines

        1.01  :  some small bug fixed,
                 added DEFAULT config file option

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