Subj : mbse v..4 and hatch and
To : Vincent Coen
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Sat Jul 15 2023 11:54 pm
Hello Vincent!
Friday July 14 2023 21:46, Vincent Coen wrote to Sean Dennis:
>> I don't think you can use a wildcard. I believe it has to be an
>> actual filename. I am no expert on this but many years ago I
>> talked to the Allfix developer about this.
VC> Found the TIC spec in doc FTS-5006.001 which states :
VC> Replaces
VC> This specifies that the file replaces one or more files that
VC> were sent previously. It is up to the receiving system if it
VC> honours this keyword.
VC> The wildcard characters '?' and '*' may be used with the usual
VC> meaning as in MS-DOS.
VC> Some tic processors do not support wild cards and use of
VC> wild cards with this keyword may cause unexpected results.
VC> With the proviso of unexpected results which I assume means that if
VC> you use *.* it will scrap the lot so any s/w must check that such a
VC> first '*' is not less than the 5 chars etc.
VC> So the question is what does mbse do and more importantly in what
VC> program ?
MBSE does NOT support wildcards in the .TIC Replaces directive. The processing of the Replaces directive is done in addbbs.c which handles adding the file to the BBS file database.
