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to: Dallas Hinton
from: Stan Bimson
date: 1999-01-09 15:26:48
subject: Y2K Squish and GEcho 1.20/Pro

Dallas Hinton wrote in a message to Tom Hall:

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?

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

I looked at the Squish doc's and could not find where it says one way or
the other.  But I do know this, my feed uses Squish, I call 24 times a day
and I get bundles ending in letters; I use Squish and there are bundles
sitting my outbound ending in letters.



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    cades{at}nashville.com

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