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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: Rick Smith
from: Kai Richter
date: 2023-09-23 14:04:00
subject: Tossing issues?

Hello Rick!

21 Sep 23, Rick Smith wrote to All:

 RS> the second time an area gets mail it changes the file name
 RS> by shortening it, in most cases like below.
 RS>           FDN_ANNO.sqd (INcorrect)
 RS>           FDN_ANNO.SQI  (INcorrect)
 RS>          #FDN_ANNOUNCE.sqd (correct)         #

Looks like some dos tool is in action. (8.3 and uppercase)

Golded can do mappath to change the path. I don't know proboard but other software could force 8.3 filenames too. This feature is for compatibility with dos environments.

I would stop the batch scripts and do them line by line manually to see when the 8.3 names are created exactly.

A quick workaround would be to change all filenames to 8.3 uppercase.

Regards

Kai

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