On 2019 Jun 23 09:55:46, you wrote to me:

 >> yes, i'll also be checking with the mail tosser developer and seeing if
 >> we can get the full path in place instead of using the
"../blah/blah"
 >> format...

 TK> Meanwhile, how about using ftrans in binkd config to map ../ to
 TK> absolute path?

oh! never thought about that... so something like

  ftrans "../" "/sbbs/"

should be all it takes?? does it take regex? i think i'd like to protect it
with something like

  ftrans "^../" "/sbbs/"

so that it only affects leading "../" and not one that may appear
in the middle of the path...

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