Hello Michiel.

09 Jun 07 14:02, you wrote to me:

 SW>> If I could code in 'C', then I would send you something.

 MB> Don't bother, get the next tarball and see.

Grabed and in use.

 MB> Its now:

 MB> 01 [   0] BoingBag39-1.lha
 MB>    02-06-2007  5254174 bytes
 MB>    This is the Amiga OS 3.9 boingbag update
 MB>    number one. Install this before doing
 MB>    any other update.

 MB> I dropped the uploader part, that was maybe something good 10 years
 MB> ago.

I like! Now if you could also implement this for the allfiles.* and newfiles.* 
text file listings.

 MB> The filename is now restricted to 80 characters total. It could wrap
 MB> to the next line if it's really long, but I doubt if we would see such
 MB> long names, you would need a filename of 71 characters before it
 MB> wraps.

Cool. I will import a for more files with long names!

 SW>> I haven't found any third party mbse utils etc (yet), so
 SW>> implementing this change would not likely effect anyone else.

 MB> It doesn't and in de database there is still the 8.3 name. This is
 MB> needed for mailer transfers for some protocols. File downloads were
 MB> already done with long filenames. The display was just the only
 MB> missing part.

I noticed that file dl's came with the long name.

btw: the nodediff processing went smoothly here, so the problem I had last 
week must have been the change from Linux to FreeBSD.



Stephen

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