Subj : Re: ANSI Art Packs
To   : Avon
From : AKAcastor
Date : Sun Mar 31 2024 09:11 pm

 A> Sorry but no,  don't have the time to manually rename 
 A> things and if they are created by an author with a 
 A> longer than 8.3 naming convention it's not really my 
 A> place to be messing with the publishers naming 
 A> convention.

Thank you for keeping files coming! (and the mail too!)

I'm another 8.3 guy, though I agree it's not up to you to take the time to deal with this.

 A> Totally understanding as to the hassles this creates for 
 A> legacy 8.3 friendly software. Would point out other BBS 
 A> software handles these longer names fine, but yeah.. 
 A> this is going to be an ongoing  mixed bag for folks I 
 A> think.

On my own system I will be able to solve this with some scripting.  In my case, binkd receives the long filenames fine but then the DOS TIC processor can't handle the long filename - so I can script things on the Linux (binkd) side to zip the file into an 8.3 filename and edit the .tic before passing it to the DOS side.  (thus far I've just renamed the .zip files manually but it's not optimal)

Not sure how to best come up with an 8.3 filename. (even if the original filename does remain intact inside the .zip)  So far I renamed files manually and inconsistently.


Chris/akacastor

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