Subj : Rules processing
To   : Ben Ritchey
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Apr 02 2017 02:15 am


 On 2017 Apr 01 20:02:02, you wrote to All:

 BR> The Rule file name (x-x.RUL) is generated from the TAG value (1st 8
 BR> characters or less) followed by ".RUL" and is automatically stored in
 BR> the RULEs field.

PASCAL_LESSONS will break it... in fact, any echo with more than eight
characters in the tag will break... it will be worse if there are two or more
with the same first eight characters (eg: ALT-COMP-ANTI-VIRUS and
ALT-COMP-WIDGETS)... this was a problem in the last implementation, too... the
name that the ruletext is stored in should be taken from the RULE line in the
MOD UPD instead of the other way around... that way an eight character filename
 can be given to the RUL file by the moderator...

eg: RULE PASSLESS.RUL
    RULE ACAVIRUS.RUL
    RULE ACWIDGET.RUL

a quick grep finds 78 echotags with nine or more characters in my .NA files...

  grep -E -e "^[A-Z0-9_\-]{9,} " *.na

but i might have missed something, again...

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