Subj : Re: FE Help
To   : mark lewis
From : Paul Hayton
Date : Tue Oct 07 2014 08:47 pm

On 10/05/14, mark lewis pondered and said...

ml> ButOfCourse<tm> ;)

aha.

ml> yup... FE and most traditional tools still require 8.3 naming for the
ml> files they use... in the case of FE, one just needs to provide an max 8
ml> character portion as the .3 portion is forced to be the JAM
ml> extensions... the areatags can be pretty long but i don't recall exactly
ml> how long without going and looking...

ml> aside: something i did a while back was to separate my areas into groups
ml> and then subdivided those by first letter to help avoid duplicate
ml> names... FE does have an internal method of generating names (FExxxxxx)
ml> where the xes are hex (IIRC) and i think they are CRC16 of the areatag

Thanks, yep I figured this was the case. And thanks for the example of how
you split out the data files. I have something similar although not as
comprehensive as yours going on here too :-)


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