Hi Tom -- on Jan 09 1999 at 08:19, you wrote:

TH> My GEcho downlink sent me a couple of bundles his tosser ignored.
TH> Coincidentally or not, both bundles' original extensions ended in
TH> letters, not digits. I know nothing about GEcho, but is it possible
TH> that it only recognizes arcmail bundles whose extensions end in
TH> DIGITS?

I'm not familiar enough with Gecho, Tom -- but I'll ask someone I know who runs it.

TH> Does anyone know if (A) GEcho has a problem with extended arcmail
TH> naming conventions, or (B) it's possible to force Squish to use only
TH> 0-9 as the termination byte of its arcmail bundle extension names?

I don't think Squish uses letters for its extensions -- it will unpack them
happily, but it doesn't make them. In view of what your downlink got, I
wonder if his mailer is a) not tossing as soon as the bundle is received,
and b) renaming to avoid overwriting?


FidoNet is alive and well -- and growing in maturity!

Cheers... Dallas

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