Subj : Re: Node Manager->Packet pwd: UPPERCASE only?
To   : Fermin Sanchez
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu May 13 2021 23:26:17

Hi Fermin,

On 2021-05-13 22:53:30, you wrote to All:

 FS> I noticed that the packet password I enter in the node manager is
 FS> taken in uppercase only, regardless of what I do or don't do with my
 FS> <Shift> key. Am I overlooking something, or is this by
 FS> design/fido-standard?

It's intentionally done this way by the original author of FMail. So I suspect it's a (kind of) fidonet standard.

FTS-0001 However doesn't specify anything about the content of the password field. But in http://ftsc.org/docs/fsc-0039.001 we read:

Type-2 Packet Format (proposed, but currently in use)
-----------------------------------------------------
  Field    Ofs Siz Type  Description                Expected value(s)
  -------  --- --- ----  -------------------------- -----------------
[...]
  Password  1A   8 Char  Packet password            A-Z,0-9


Bye, Wilfred.

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