On 09/12/18, Andrew Leary said the following...
 AL> FTS-5006.001 specifies a filename in DOS 8.3 format.  Thus, it could be 
 AL> interpreted that .TIC files with shorter or longer names are
 AL> non-compliant.

It could? I went to wikipedia to see what it has on 8.3 and it says this:

"8.3 filenames are limited to at most eight characters (after any directory
specifier), followed optionally by a filename extension consisting of a
period . and at most three further characters."

The key words there are "at most" - which would imply they can be shorter?

Is there somewhere else that mentions that they should be 8 chars. 

Perhaps MBSE could use the incoming tic name transiently, and actually
discard the pre .tic component and save it as $(mbseq).tic when it has been
finally received? Then it wont matter how other systems present a tic file,
and it could avoid a clash (not sure if this part is ever an issue...)?

Just ideas...

...deon

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