MA> The echomail autocreate areas in 8.3 format is very rare. Works fine
 MA> around some time and suddenly Mystic stop creating them with short names
 MA> and autocreate them with long names. Very strange.

I can't see any place in the code that would cause this.  Do you have a log or an actual example of a name of a base where this happened?  Maybe I can try to recreate it here using the same name.

... Computers all wait at the same speed!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/01/31 (Windows/64)