Subj : Echo Tag Length
To   : Tommi Koivula
From : Michael Dukelsky
Date : Sun Nov 22 2020 22:08:10

Hello Tommi,

Sunday November 22 2020, Tommi Koivula wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 >>>>  MD>>  PH> What is the maximum echo tag length that HPT can
 >>>> handle?
 >>>>  MD>> An echo tag cannot be longer than 60 bytes.
 >>>>  PH> Thanks so 60 characters including spaces - is that right?
 >>>>
 >>>> No, 60 or less ASCII characters with decimal code >=33 and <=126.
 >>>> So tab, space, carriage return and new line are not allowed.
 RS>>> I wonder what official maximum length of an area/echo tag
 RS>>> (a.k.a. conference id) actually is.
 MD>>
 MD>> I don't know of any standard for the length of an areatag. The
 MD>> data I gave above was taken from the HPT code since the question
 MD>> was about HPT.
 TK> The maximum echotag lenght in GEcho is 50. As well as in Fastecho. So
 TK> that has been some de facto standard back then.

That's OK. HPT is fully compatible since it allows such echotags.

Michael

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