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    From Rick Smith@1:105/85 to All on Tue Oct 17 06:17:59 2023
    Greetings All!

    I am trying to get the dosfile variable working.. I had hoped that it would just shorten the name to 8+3. Imstead it assigned a random name??

    EchoArea darkrealms \pb\msgbase\fido\652b0872 -dosfile -d "" -g F



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    Rick Smith (Nitro)

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  • From Kai Richter@2:240/77 to Rick Smith on Tue Oct 17 23:26:16 2023
    Hello Rick!

    17 Oct 23, Rick Smith wrote to All:

    I am trying to get the dosfile variable working.. I had hoped that it would just shorten the name to 8+3. Imstead it assigned a random
    name??

    EchoArea darkrealms \pb\msgbase\fido\652b0872 -dosfile -d "" -g F

    Shortening was not a good option when high traffic echos were split into sub-echos. Once we had a lot of gaming echos in our region, my archive shows 7 of them or for the OS/2 sub-echos 11. The HARDWARE sub-echos started with the same 8 characters and the best option was a manual file naming.

    As long as you don't need to touch the files directly that random naming should not be a problem because the software will find the correct files due to the EchoArea definition lines.

    Regards

    Kai

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