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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: MICHAEL DUKELSKY
from: TOMMI KOIVULA
date: 2020-11-22 20:17:00
subject: Echo Tag Length

Sunday November 22 2020 18:04, Michael Dukelsky wrote to Rob Swindell:

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

The maximum echotag lenght in GEcho is 50. As well as in Fastecho. So that has
been some de facto standard back then.

'Tommi

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