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    From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Jon Justvig on Wed Mar 1 12:39:26 2017
    * Original Post FileGate
    * Copied to IFDC

    A reminder to ALL FDN Coordinators that you should ONLY be sending out 8X3 filenames!

    In otherwords, this DOES NOT WORK:

    legl0055.tar.gz

    To Jon: you need to store (not archive) this in a zip envelope, like this:

    zip -jm0 legl0055.zip legl0055.tar.gz

    I thought we went through this before???

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Bob Seaborn@1:140/12 to Janis Kracht on Wed Mar 1 13:06:00 2017
    * Original Post FileGate
    * Copied to IFDC

    A reminder to ALL FDN Coordinators that you should ONLY be sending out
    8X3 filenames!


    Thank you! Doing so means that they will properly pass through here instead of stopping and plugging my system, forcing me to simply delete them. Again, thank you.



    In otherwords, this DOES NOT WORK:

    legl0055.tar.gz

    To Jon: you need to store (not archive) this in a zip envelope, like
    this:

    zip -jm0 legl0055.zip legl0055.tar.gz

    I thought we went through this before???

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)

    --- GEcho/32 & IM 2.50
    * Origin: http://www.fidonet.ca (1:140/12)
  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Bob Seaborn on Wed Mar 1 14:46:58 2017
    Hi Bob,

    * Original Post FileGate
    * Copied to IFDC

    A reminder to ALL FDN Coordinators that you should ONLY be sending out
    8X3 filenames!


    Thank you! Doing so means that they will properly pass through here instead of
    stopping and plugging my system, forcing me to simply delete them. Again, thank you.

    You are welcome Bob.. Now if Jon would acknowledge the post :(



    In otherwords, this DOES NOT WORK:

    legl0055.tar.gz

    To Jon: you need to store (not archive) this in a zip envelope, like
    this:

    zip -jm0 legl0055.zip legl0055.tar.gz

    I thought we went through this before???

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)

    Gums up everything here as well.. bbbs understand tar gz files, but that doesn't help file descriptions.

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to Janis Kracht on Wed Mar 1 21:30:10 2017
    Hello Janis!

    Wednesday March 01 2017 12:39, you wrote to Jon Justvig:

    * Original Post FileGate
    * Copied to IFDC

    A reminder to ALL FDN Coordinators that you should ONLY be sending out
    8X3 filenames!

    In otherwords, this DOES NOT WORK:

    legl0055.tar.gz

    To Jon: you need to store (not archive) this in a zip envelope, like
    this:

    zip -jm0 legl0055.zip legl0055.tar.gz

    I thought we went through this before???

    As I run Linux and mbse which is built for Linux I can handle standard long names - they just pass through. Oh, it also handles converting long names to little one's for all systems marked as must have 8.3, mostly old Dos systems.



    Vince

    --- Mageia Linux v5/Mbse v1.0.6.14/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.501-b20150715
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1)
  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Vince Coen on Wed Mar 1 18:30:20 2017
    Hi Vince,

    As I run Linux and mbse which is built for Linux I can handle standard long names - they just pass through. Oh, it also handles converting long names to little one's for all systems marked as must have 8.3, mostly old Dos systems.

    Just a note:

    Files hatched should be:
    1) in zip, rar, or some other archive type that can be commented (NOT gzip
    or tar.gz)
    2) carry the archive comment (filegate.hdr)
    3) the integrity of the original file should be kept, in other words DON'T
    add files to an author's work. Archive comments do not add files to the
    archive, that's why we use them.

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)