Subj : dosfile
To   : Rick Smith
From : Kai Richter
Date : Tue Oct 17 2023 11:26 pm

Hello Rick!

17 Oct 23, Rick Smith wrote to All:

 RS> I am trying to get the dosfile variable working.. I had hoped that it
 RS> would just shorten the name to 8+3. Imstead it assigned a random
 RS> name??

 RS> EchoArea darkrealms \pb\msgbase\fido\652b0872 -dosfile -d ""  -g F

Shortening was not a good option when high traffic echos were split into sub-echos. Once we had a lot of gaming echos in our region, my archive shows 7 of them or for the OS/2 sub-echos 11. The HARDWARE sub-echos started with the same 8 characters and the best option was a manual file naming.

As long as you don't need to touch the files directly that random naming should not be a problem because the software will find the correct files due to the EchoArea definition lines.

Regards

Kai

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