Subj : Re: Problem with filenames containing spaces
To   : James Coyle
From : deon
Date : Wed Jan 19 2022 01:38 pm

 Re: Re: Problem with filenames containing spaces
 By: James Coyle to Oli on Tue Jan 18 2022 03:50 pm

James,

> And its sad that you convinced non-FTN-techincal people like Paul and Deon that you are some sort of subject matter expert (when everyone who actually does this stuff knows you're a subject matter idiot).

So I'll have to disagree with you there.

What makes you think I am "non-FTN-technical"?

What makes you think that I have pondered whether Oli is a "subject matter expert"? Now that you mention it though, his research and understanding of the problem is spot on IMHO.

We've had this kind of discussion before - I dont think you understand the problem - mainly because your replies conflict. I'm still not convinced that the problem is with Binkd (actually I'm very confident it is not), but that is moot - if your software doesnt work with it, I dont get why you wouldnt want to make it work with it, even if the binkd development team werent interested in "fixing" it the way you want it "fixed".

You have many people that like your software, wouldnt you want to make it work so that they dont have a reason to look for something else (if it's failures were becoming problematic for them)?

You have a known use case, as from the logs received by a Mystic user, the file "MyGUI v1.0.2.26.zip" is encoded as "MyGUI\x20v1.0.2.26.zip" by binkd and sent to a Mystic system. Mystic recorded "BINKP 1-Receiving: MyGUI\000v1.0.2.26.zip (1,669,424 bytes)" in the log file, and saved the received portion as "MyGUI" (instead of it's proper name - I'm guessing related to the \00?). The M_GOT response only included the text "M_GOT MyGUI", not what it should have quoted back "M_GOT MyGUI\x20v1.0.2.26.zip 1669424 1641463672", hence binkd bawlked with an error and kept re-trying to send the file everytime the node connected.

Anyway, I dont use it - we know it cannot handle files with spaces in it from a binkd mailer.



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