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   Message 478 of 1,212   
   Janis Kracht to Robert Wolfe   
   Re: Rudi is gone   
   04 Sep 14 00:08:52   
   
   Hi Robert,   
      
   >-> hope there's interest in someone else picking up the job of Moderator.  Now   
   >-> the software was buggy, then there's no point I guess?  I've never used it   
   > -> don't know .... anyone?   
      
   > The only issue I have with it is that it will not let me add   
   > WILDCAT!_SUPPORT since it has the special characters in the name, and   
   > from what I can tell, the developer isn't going to release an update   
   > that will fix that issue.   
      
   Just thinking about that issue from a programming perspective... I can't   
   imagine someone would limit a field to only alphas for essentially a "name   
   field". Digits should also of course be included, and so you'd expect other   
   chars, certainly if one consulted a list of echos on the backbone. A string is   
   a string is a string which is what I'd be looking at for a "name" field.   
      
   Now maybe WILDCAT!_SUPPORT is too long.. 16 chars... do you have anyway to   
   check to see what it's storing for the area names? Eight chars are classic,   
   but....   
      
   Oops.. that dang ! would have to be escaped, but any programmer who can   
   compile would know that .   
      
   Do you have any other areas on your tablet that are that long? Just thinking...   
      
   Take care,   
   Janis   
      
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