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from: Mike Ehlert
date: 2006-07-13 16:54:34
subject: Re: EleBBS: problem with ele and file description processing

* EleBBS Support List

Hi DR,

> Basicly it's a huge flaw and i got no idea how to fix it i don't want
> any users putting in file descriptions for files that already have a
> DIZ but ele asks for a description before any processing of any kind
> is done can that be turned off ?  and if there is no DIZ in the file
> it either gets killed or the user can enter something
> 
> it's just so annoying for a uploader that has a batch of 25 files and
> it asks for a description of each hopefully someone can sort this out.

Another solution would be to only allow uploads via a filedoor like
Wareztag,EFT,FastFile etc... but again they are all DOS programs
so if you need to support LongFilenames you are screwed.

Regards,  Mike

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