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  • UCS kludges and long headers to base

    From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to Eugene Subbotin on Wed Sep 9 21:13:30 2026
    Hello Eugene,

    I noticed that LARGEHEADERSTOBASE disables WRITEUCSHEADERS even if that is set to "yes".

    This may make sense eventually but as long as the Fidonet community has not clearly choosen for the one method or the other, I think is usefull to have the option of having both enabled at the same time.

    I gave it some thought and considered a third choice for WRITEUCSHEADERS like "also", "override", "always" and "yesplus" to override the disabeling when LARGEHEADERTOBASE is "yes". But none of those seem very satisfactory.

    But then I thought why not just remove the disabeling completely and always generate the UCS kludges when WRITEUCSHEADERS is set to "yes"? independent of he setting of LARGEHEADERSTOBASE. Actually that is much more logical and it still gives the sysop full control over the behaviour.

    Just my €0,02. ;-)


    Cheers, Michiel

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