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echo: binkd
to: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
from: MARK LEWIS
date: 2015-02-25 13:35:00
subject: File requesting with bink

 On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Paul Quinn:

 MvdV>> It may act different when it is placed in a file box.

 PQ> Not seen here.  It sends them as is.  I think that's the idea of 
 PQ> filebox technology.  ;)

 MvdV> Then that thechnology is unsuitable for sending an xxxxyyyy.req. 
 MvdV> If there already is a file with the same name in the receiver's 
 MvdV> inbound, the result is unpredictable.

that's the fault of the creator of the req file that is placed in a filebox,
then... aside from that, there's no protection from sending a file with the
same name to a binkd system in some circumstances... i've run into this more
times that i care to count...

)\/(ark

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