Jack Stein wrote in a message to Paul Marwick:

 JS> I never used that facility myself, since I run OPUS and it 
 JS> doesn't use a Files.bbs 

What does it use instead?

 JS> and I don't have any long filenames on my bbs. 

I don't either.

 JS> I tested it though, and although it works fine copying an 8.3 
 JS> file and its files.bbs entry, it blows up with long filenames 
 JS> in the files.bbs.  Is there another files manager that does 
 JS> this at all?  To me, this is an extra that would be used mainly 
 JS> by sysops running an OS/2 BBS that carries files with long 
 JS> filename.  That generally is not done because many, most bbs's 
 JS> don't handle other than 8.3 files.

Agreed.  My solution to that here is to take,  say, 
this.is.a.real.long.filename.zip and stick it inside something that can be
fairly close to that in 8.3 like longname.zip,  putting the original name in
the description...

An awful lot of stuff out there breaks with other than 8.3.



 JS> I blame the whole mess on IBM, MS, INTEL, ZIFF-DAVIS and the 
 JS> DOJ.  A clear  case of a giant cartel run amuck, screwing the 
 JS> public at will, and the DOJ too corrupt to do anything about it.

That's one of the reasons I'm getting into Linux here...    :-)

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