Subj : mbse v..4 and hatch and
To   : Vincent Coen
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Sat Jul 15 2023 11:54 pm

Hello Vincent!

Friday July 14 2023 21:46, Vincent Coen wrote to Sean Dennis:

 >> I don't think you can use a wildcard.  I believe it has to be an
 >> actual filename.  I am no expert on this but many years ago I
 >> talked to the Allfix developer about this.

 VC> Found the TIC spec in doc FTS-5006.001 which states :

 VC>  Replaces

 VC>      This specifies that the file replaces one or more files that
 VC>      were sent previously. It is up to the receiving system if it
 VC>      honours this keyword.
 VC>      The wildcard characters '?' and '*' may be used with the usual
 VC>      meaning as in MS-DOS.
 VC>      Some tic processors do not support wild cards and use of
 VC>      wild cards with this keyword may cause unexpected results.


 VC> With the proviso of unexpected results which I assume means that if
 VC> you use *.* it will scrap the lot so any s/w must check that such a
 VC> first '*' is not less than the 5 chars etc.

 VC> So the question is what does mbse do and more importantly in what
 VC> program ?

MBSE does NOT support wildcards in the .TIC Replaces directive.  The processing of the Replaces directive is done in addbbs.c which handles adding the file to the BBS file database.

Andrew

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