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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: ROB SWINDELL
from: MICHAEL DUKELSKY
date: 2020-11-22 18:01:00
subject: Echo Tag Length

Hello Rob,

Saturday November 21 2020, Rob Swindell wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 >>  MD>>  PH> What is the maximum echo tag length that HPT can handle?
 >>  MD>> An echo tag cannot be longer than 60 bytes.
 >>  PH> Thanks so 60 characters including spaces - is that right?
 >>
 >> No, 60 or less ASCII characters with decimal code >=33 and <=126.
 >> So tab, space, carriage return and new line are not allowed.
 RS> I wonder what official maximum length of an area/echo tag (a.k.a.
 RS> conference id) actually is.

I don't know of any standard for the length of an areatag. The data I gave
above was taken from the HPT code since the question was about HPT.

Michael

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