Subj : synchronet v3 + frontdoor mailer.bat / exebbs.bat
To : Roy Witt
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Oct 06 2012 01:41 pm
ml> good point! but, sadly, not all areas can use fully spelled out
ml> directory names... this one, however, fits perfectly into the 8.3
ml> format! ;) :)
RW> Kinda like putting a European echo name into FastEcho. Their
RW> tendency to insert a . between two words doesn't always work out
RW> like it should.
it works fine for echotags... however, not all software creates area names
based on the tags and not all software can handle long filenames...
FWIW: those dots in the area names have their origination in the usenet
newsgroups formats... the dots were seen as directory separators so there was
easy conversion... i do it here with my JAMbases but am still limited to 8.3
lengths for each of them...