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    From Paul Hayton@3:770/1 to All on Saturday, October 04, 2014 22:23:51
    Anyone about that can field a question about Fastecho?


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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384 to Paul Hayton on Saturday, October 04, 2014 20:52:18
    Hi! Paul,

    On 10/04/2014 10:23 PM, you wrote:

    Anyone about that can field a question about Fastecho?

    There's a few of us still haunting the echo. If it's not too hard then I'll have a go at an answer.

    Ask away...

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.71 to Paul Hayton on Saturday, October 04, 2014 13:23:47

    On Sat, 04 Oct 2014, Paul Hayton wrote to All:

    Anyone about that can field a question about Fastecho?

    BoC<tm> ;)

    what's your question?

    )\/(ark
    member, Fastecho Beta Team

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  • From Paul Hayton@3:770/1 to Paul Quinn on Sunday, October 05, 2014 10:48:58
    On 10/04/14, Paul Quinn pondered and said...

    There's a few of us still haunting the echo. If it's not too hard then I'll have a go at an answer.

    Hi Paul,

    Thanks for the reply, actually I think I solved my issue. It related to echoarea tags that broke the 8.3 convention. But I'm going to be looking at
    the stats output/reporting features of FE soon so may have a few more
    questions about that and routing.

    Best, P.


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  • From Paul Hayton@3:770/1 to mark lewis on Sunday, October 05, 2014 10:50:45
    On 10/04/14, mark lewis pondered and said...

    BoC<tm> ;)

    ?.. sorry I should get that but I don't :-)

    what's your question?

    Just playing with FE and had hit a snag with echoarea tags larger than 8.3
    file naming convention for JAM data files. Was having issues, but solved
    after renaming data files to fit the old dos days convention.


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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/384 to Paul Hayton on Sunday, October 05, 2014 08:14:00
    Hi! Paul,

    On Sun, 05 Oct 14, you wrote to me:

    Thanks for the reply, actually I think I solved my issue. It related
    to echoarea tags that broke the 8.3 convention. But I'm going to be looking at the stats output/reporting features of FE soon so may have
    a few more questions about that and routing.

    Long tags are fine, even those based on Usenet groups. If you let FE auto-create areas then even the filenames will still be kosher.

    Routing is easy to cobble-together using a combination of simple routes for each defined link and their AKAs. Anything more complex would require a route file. Even they're easy after a while.

    Have fun with it!

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From Paul Hayton@3:770/1 to Paul Quinn on Sunday, October 05, 2014 13:15:11
    On 10/05/14, Paul Quinn pondered and said...

    Long tags are fine, even those based on Usenet groups. If you let FE auto-create areas then even the filenames will still be kosher.

    That was the problem at the time I posted, I had tried to get FE to play nice with AVERYLONG_FILENAME and it didn't like it.

    I'll be in touch with some netmail questions soon :-)

    Best, Paul


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  • From Paul Hayton@3:770/1 to mark lewis on Tuesday, October 07, 2014 20:47:01
    On 10/05/14, mark lewis pondered and said...

    ButOfCourse<tm> ;)

    aha.

    yup... FE and most traditional tools still require 8.3 naming for the files they use... in the case of FE, one just needs to provide an max 8 character portion as the .3 portion is forced to be the JAM
    extensions... the areatags can be pretty long but i don't recall exactly how long without going and looking...

    aside: something i did a while back was to separate my areas into groups and then subdivided those by first letter to help avoid duplicate
    names... FE does have an internal method of generating names (FExxxxxx) where the xes are hex (IIRC) and i think they are CRC16 of the areatag

    Thanks, yep I figured this was the case. And thanks for the example of how
    you split out the data files. I have something similar although not as comprehensive as yours going on here too :-)


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