On 21 Aug 96 at 11:24:53, Peter Chalmers wrote to Roderick Breis about
"M A X's BBS"

 RB> The file name that M A X's produced was  3.622.446.0.we0
 RB>                                                      ^^
 RB> This Breaks the 8.3 IBM limit, can someone help me on this problem ??

 PC> right hand side there is two flags, one I think was to make the 
 PC> 8-3 type packets..  

 PC>   I haven't unarched Maxs to have a look and am only going by 
 PC> memory, But I used to poll only IBm packages and initially had a 
 PC> similar prob..that Was a long time ago now or so it seems...

Well, I can assure you as TrapToss user (and having tried Spot &
Foozle) Amiga users wouldn't toss any mail in inbound with a 4D filename
like 3.622.446.0.we0, so there'd be problems there, too (albeit only one of
renaming or manually unarchiving the bundle).

  Mea Culpa,
 Peter Deane

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