Subj : No zone or net in the 'To' address (Firstname Lastname, Zone:Net/N
To   : Kai Richter
From : Michael Dukelsky
Date : Sun Jan 23 2022 01:05 pm

Hello Kai,

Friday January 21 2022, Kai Richter wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 AS>>> To Alisha Stutz, Zone:Net/Node

 MD>> I updated htick to recognize this format of the "To" field of a
 MD>> TIC file.

 hi>> allow the so-called "advanced" TIC file format

 KR> From my point of view i am lost in translation of social communication
 KR> components. Alan said it "looks like" and uses "advanced" in "". This
 KR> is sometimes used to downgrade the word if someone knows that it is
 KR> not really true.

That is why I wrote "the so-called" and put the word "advanced" in quotes.

 KR> Don't get me wrong, i love it that you did a quick workaround to keep
 KR> htick up and running! On the other hand we do support a new tic
 KR> "advanced standard" that was none before.

Nobody said it was a standard.

 KR> Those software that use that
 KR> truly non-standard tic format does not have a reason to change.

The program using the non-standard TIC files is "Internet Rex". It has been an abandonware for a long time and there is no chance anything may change in it.

 KR> As a
 KR> result husky users do not have a problem but the rest of the tick
 KR> software that does not receive an update have to work around broken
 KR> tic files.

Internet Rex will not receive an update and the sysop using it does not want to replace it if I understand it correctly.

Michael

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