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...

eg:
alt.audio.pro                     X:\JAM\GRPS\ALT\AUDIO\PRO
rec.audio.pro.live-sound          X:\JAM\GRPS\REC\AUDIO\PRO\LIVE-SND
rec.arts.movies.production.sound  X:\JAM\GRPS\REC\ARTS\MOVIES\PRODUCTI.ON\SOUND

MSG areas can also easily use this style...

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