File Areas, more often referred to as File Echos, are used to automatically distribute files around the network, just as Echomail Areas are used to distribute echomail around the network. More often than not, files distributed via File Echos are accompanied by .TIC files, which contain a brief summary of the file they accompany. A typical use of a File Echo would be to distribute the weekly nodediff, the weekly nodelist, the weekly issue of FidoNews, etc. [x] OpenXP will process .TIC files and post a "message" in a file area specifically created for each File Echo. Once processed, the .TIC files are deleted. These file areas can be found in amongst your message areas. Examples: /FIDO/FILES/FIDONEWS /FIDO/FILES/NODEDIFZ /FIDO/FILES/ECHOLIST Pressing <Enter> on any of the file areas will bring up a "message" list and pressing <Enter> on any of the "messages" will display the contents of the associated packed file in the archive viewer. [ ] .TIC files will neither be processed nor deleted.