Subj : mbse v..4 and hatch and
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Sun Jul 16 2023 10:55 pm

Hello Andrew!

Saturday July 15 2023 23:54, you wrote to me:

 > 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
 VC>> 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
 VC>> if you use *.* it will scrap the lot so any s/w must check that
 VC>> such a 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.

That's a shame but I will have to live with it.
The trouble is I get new additions to one area i.e., PDNBASIC as a file
without any TIC details including description so I have to do a unzip -z
filename.ZIP just to get the one liner to use when running hatch - that then
gets the full description via file_id.diz but if I just use a one word detail,
that get passed on to all downlinks instead.

I have now asked him to specify the previous fn.

Can I assume that if I specify old fn to REPLACE it is NOT case sensitive ?

He does NOT run a BBS.

Vincent

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