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                            The File Request Feature


     Often when you see  a msg where new  files are announced, you  wish
     you could  simply press  a key  and select  files to request. Well,
     with GoldED you can!

     The  file  request  function  (default  key  Ctrl-F)  will scan the
     current message  and present  you with  a list  of the  requestable
     files it found. GoldED will  even show the file descriptions  if it
     can find one.

     You select the files  by toggling marks with  the Space key. A  '+'
     will show  in front  of the  selected files.  The selections can be
     discarded by  pressing Esc.  When done  with the  selections, press
     Enter to continue.

     Now the destination area must  be selected from the list.  You have
     to pick  a netmail  area of  the *.MSG  type, since  the Hudson and
     Squish netmail areas  are currently not  supported by most  mailers
     today.

     After selecting the area, check that the header data (TO name  etc)
     is correct. You can now go on to perhaps write a thank you note  in
     the accompanying msg, or you can save (empty) your msg  immediately
     (if you have the EDITMENU keyword set to Yes).

     At  the  moment  you  start  editing  the header, the filenames and
     descriptions are written  to a FILES.BBS  in the INBOUNDPATH.  This
     can be very helpful if you  are getting files for your own  BBS and
     are  tired  of  inventing  or  finding  descriptions  for all those
     files.. The fact that the  FILES.BBS is written to disk  before you
     even save  you msg,  can be  used to  get "free" descriptions later
     from the response msgs  some mailers send back  when you do a  file
     request.

     There are  currently a  couple of  limitations in  the file request
     function:

       *  You can only request as  many files as can fit in  the subject
          line of one msg.

       *  GoldED recognizes several different types of file announcement
          formats, but some may not be fully supported. This means  that
          legitimate descriptions may  not be found  by GoldED, or  that
          some files are not recognized as requestable.

       *  If a msg does not  conform to a known announcement format,  it
          is instead  (actually it  is _also_)  scanned for  a number of
          standard archive extensions. These extensions are configurable
          with the  FRQEXT keyword,  which comes  pre-defined with  many
          common file  extensions. Only  one such  file per  line can be
          found by  GoldED, and  only if  it is  "straight" -  no spaces
          between name and extension,  and no "funny" characters  in the
          filename. The description is simply the rest of the line.