On 2017 Apr 01 20:02:02, you wrote to All:

 BR> The Rule file name (x-x.RUL) is generated from the TAG value (1st 8
 BR> characters or less) followed by ".RUL" and is
automatically stored in
 BR> the RULEs field.

PASCAL_LESSONS will break it... in fact, any echo with more than eight
characters in the tag will break... it will be worse if there are two or
more with the same first eight characters (eg: ALT-COMP-ANTI-VIRUS and
ALT-COMP-WIDGETS)... this was a problem in the last implementation, too...
the name that the ruletext is stored in should be taken from the RULE line
in the MOD UPD instead of the other way around... that way an eight
character filename can be given to the RUL file by the moderator...

eg: RULE PASSLESS.RUL
    RULE ACAVIRUS.RUL
    RULE ACWIDGET.RUL

a quick grep finds 78 echotags with nine or more characters in my .NA files...

  grep -E -e "^[A-Z0-9_\-]{9,} " *.na

but i might have missed something, again...

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