Subj : Re: Message/File Base Names
To   : Tiny
From : Phoobar
Date : Sun May 24 2020 08:32:40

 Ti>  Ph> I should already know this...but with many of the echoes being more
 Ti>  Ph> than 8 letters...how would one go about naming your bases to be able 
 Ti>  Ph> allow your tosser to know where to toss the messages/files? If you're
 Ti>   You can just name the files anything. ie: 000001 etc.  

It's what I was doing...but started doubting myself that I was doing it
correctly with TG/2.

 Ti>  Ph> attempting to use TIC to automatically setup your bases...how would y
 Ti>  Ph> get around/work with the 8 letter limit?
 Ti>   The TIC issue I can't help you with.  Any long file names come here I
 Ti>   just delete them, it's too difficult to re-zip, change the tic file
 Ti>   etc etc.  Most of the FSX tic file hatches just get deleted.

Okay. Will conquer this whenever it happens & deal with it like this or just
rename the file to whatever.

 Ti>   Exception are the info pack, and apam's stuff which is always 8. ;)

Oh yeah! Just didn't want the discussion to restart about the 8.3 & whether
or not it matters. 

Thanks for the info! Got tomorrow off...back to the mines for 1 & three from
there.

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