Subj : Re: Message/File Base Names
To   : Phoobar
From : Atreyu
Date : Mon May 25 2020 18:26:56

On 23 May 20  20:30:17, Phoobar said the following to All:

P> I should already know this...but with many of the echoes being more than 8
P> letters...how would one go about naming your bases to be able to allow your
P> tosser to know where to toss the messages/files? If you're attempting to use
P> TIC to automatically setup your bases...how would you get around/work with
P> the 8 letter limit?

The simple explanation is that 8.3 filenames are generally used in the
forwarding and processing of Tic files to other systems due to many systems 
still running software only capable of processing such names. But what you do
on your own system with naming is up to you.

Atreyu

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