Hello Dallas,
Friday July 03 2020, Dallas Hinton wrote to Michael Dukelsky:
MD>> In Fidonet, we have flow files referring to echomail and ticket
MD>> files (.TIC) referring to fileecho files. If some echomail file
MD>> has lost the flow file referring to it, or a fileecho file has
MD>> lost the .TIC referring to it, may I call it a widow file (or
MD>> maybe an orphan one)?
DH> I've never heard them called that, but I don't see why not. I'd
DH> personally call those files "orphans" rather than widows, but I'm not
DH> sure why!
Thank you.
Michael
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