Subj : Notice
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : mark lewis
Date : Mon Feb 17 2014 11:14:24


On Sun, 16 Feb 2014, Nicholas Boel wrote to mark lewis:

 BM>> Just out of curiosity, what are you using to hatch? I'm being
 BM>> completely impartial here...

 ml> FWIW: it is not the hatching that's the problem... it is the
 ml> descriptions being cut off, rewrapped, or just being much too long...
 ml> the hatch LDESC is still limited to only a few lines and definitely no
 ml> way to enter multiple lines with fancy graphics headers and the
 ml> like...

 NB> So let's make sure it goes on record that I've never had a LDESC
 NB> cropped, cut  off, rewrapped, or just being much too long the
 NB> entire time I've used it. 

where? in what you send out that others have to process or in what you receive 
and process on your system?

how many LDESC lines do you send in your TICs? what is their max length?

how many LDESC lines do you receive in your TICs? what is their max length?

do you throw away the TIC DESC and LDESC lines and simply import a FILE_ID.DIZ 
if it exists? what happens if there is no FILE_ID.DIZ in the archive? does your 
system fall back to DESC and/or DESC+LDESC?

 NB> With that being said, I do blame software's limitations. If there
 NB> is one  application that can do it perfectly, then the others just
 NB> weren't made to do  the same.

agreed but i also look at the config settings in the available packages... in 
allfix i can choose several different ways of getting the description... 
currently i use FILE_ID/LDESC... i can filter ANSI and >128 characters... i can 
choose how many lines from LDESC i can use... but none of this affects the way 
the descriptions are displayed on the BBS or on a web page... that's controlled 
within the BBS to a certain extent... my web page generator takes what is in 
the files database and outputs it exactly as it is in the database... any 
conversion seen after that is due to the browser's rendering of the data...

)\/(ark

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gang of brutal facts. --Benjamin Franklin

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