Hi Stephen,

Stephen Walsh wrote to Michiel Broek:
SW> Hello Michiel.
SW> 
SW> 09 Jun 07 14:02, you wrote to me:
SW> 
SW>  SW>> If I could code in 'C', then I would send you something.
SW> 
SW>  MB> Don't bother, get the next tarball and see.
SW> 
SW> Grabed and in use.
SW> 
SW>  MB> Its now:
SW> 
SW>  MB> 01 [   0] BoingBag39-1.lha
SW>  MB>    02-06-2007  5254174 bytes
SW>  MB>    This is the Amiga OS 3.9 boingbag update
SW>  MB>    number one. Install this before doing
SW>  MB>    any other update.
SW> 
SW>  MB> I dropped the uploader part, that was maybe something good 10 years
SW>  MB> ago.
SW> 
SW> I like! Now if you could also implement this for the allfiles.* and 
SW> newfiles.*
SW> text file listings.

That has to change as well.

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

Do that and see how it shows.

SW> 
SW>  SW>> I haven't found any third party mbse utils etc (yet), so
SW>  SW>> implementing this change would not likely effect anyone else.
SW> 
SW>  MB> It doesn't and in de database there is still the 8.3 name. This is
SW>  MB> needed for mailer transfers for some protocols. File downloads were
SW>  MB> already done with long filenames. The display was just the only
SW>  MB> missing part.
SW> 
SW> I noticed that file dl's came with the long name.
SW> 
SW> btw: the nodediff processing went smoothly here, so the problem I had last 

SW> week must have been the change from Linux to FreeBSD.

I guess so, maybe a list that didn't "fit" the diff.



    Greetings, Michiel Broek

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