Subj : ANSI Art Packs
To   : AKAcastor
From : Roon
Date : Mon Apr 01 2024 09:46 am

Hello AKAcastor,

31 Mar 24 21:11, you wrote to Avon:

 A>> Totally understanding as to the hassles this creates for
 A>> legacy 8.3 friendly software. Would point out other BBS
 A>> software handles these longer names fine, but yeah..
 A>> this is going to be an ongoing  mixed bag for folks I
 A>> think.

 A> On my own system I will be able to solve this with some scripting.  In
 A> my case, binkd receives the long filenames fine but then the DOS TIC
 A> processor can't handle the long filename - so I can script things on
 A> the Linux (binkd) side to zip the file into an 8.3 filename and edit
 A> the .tic before passing it to the DOS side.  (thus far I've just
 A> renamed the .zip files manually but it's not optimal)

here NEF processes the tic files, but maximus can't handle long filenames :(

 A> Not sure how to best come up with an 8.3 filename. (even if the
 A> original filename does remain intact inside the .zip)  So far I
 A> renamed files manually and inconsistently.

the optimal would be that Avon scripts the filenames to the 8.3 sizes so we don't need to write 3 or more different scripts on different parts of the world, but i can understand that he don't have the time for this.

Regards,
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