G'day Brendan

 RB>> Then I tried to crashmail a Ezycom IBM bbs and it did not allow the
 RB>> file names that M A X's BBS suport ?..

 RB>> The file name that M A X's produced was  3.622.446.0.we0

 BP> Because Maxs is broken.

  Bzzzt.  Wrong.  Well... it's not brokedn with regards to THIS problem. ;]

 BP> Any and all decent mailers would send a file named like the above, and
 BP> convert it to an IBM acceptable filename completely without any
 BP> interaction from the sysop, and all handled automatically.

  Any and all decent mailers that have 2D disabled would have *exactly* the
same problem.  The cure is simply to tell it to use 2D pkts instead of 4D
pkts for that particular system.

 BP> Real easy, just get something that actually works properly.

  Even easier... configure it properly!  -OR- tell the IBM SysOp in
question to update his SW to something more modern which CAN handle 4D
pkts.  

  Shall I shut up now?       __                              __n~~   o_
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