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echo: mbse
to: Andrew Leary
from: Vince Coen
date: 2018-09-22 14:10:24
subject: mbse 1.0.7.9

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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