Subj : mbse 1.0.7.9
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Vince Coen
Date : Sat Sep 22 2018 02:10 pm

Hello Andrew!

Friday September 21 2018 18:04, you wrote to me:


VC>> At the moment I am currently running this version and have for
VC>> some days with no adverse results but cannot say that the
VC>> conditions have arisen where this fix shows up but I do have at
VC>> least one downlink using Mystic (v1.12A39 binkp/1.0).

> You won't notice anything unless a Mystic node sends you .TIC files.
> Mystic by default names .TIC files with the same name as the archive
> they relate to.
> ie: the .TIC file for fsxinfo.zip would be fsxinfo.tic.

> This causes problems with MBSE versions before 1.0.7.9, because MBSE
> expects that all .TIC files will be named with 8 character filenames
> followed by .TIC. The example above is only 7 characters, so it
> wouldn't be processed automatically.  The same applies to long
> filenames (longer than 8 characters.)

> The changes in 1.0.7.9 will handle .TIC files with filenames of 1
> character up to the maximum the OS supports.

Thanks for that, in which case I will not notice it as my master uplinks do
not
use mystic - have no idea why not!!

Must have a look at what hatch does though as I do process some long file
names
:)

Mind you I am fairly sure it renames them to a 8.3 - in some case very oddly
:)


Vince

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