ml> BoC ;)   
      
    PH> ?.. sorry I should get that but I don't :-)   
      
   ButOfCourse ;)   
      
    ml> what's your question?   
      
    PH> Just playing with FE and had hit a snag with echoarea tags larger    
    PH> than 8.3 file naming convention for JAM data files. Was having    
    PH> issues, but solved after renaming data files to fit the old dos    
    PH> days convention.    
      
   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 but it has been a very long   
   time since that was discussed...   
      
   so anyway, i let my FE create new areas and then i go in later and fix them to   
   be what and where i want them to be... dotted and some dashed areatags i split   
   on the dots or dashes... my local, net, regional, backbone, private,   
   sysops-only and z1-only areas are clearly denoted and separated by network...   
   in the end, i get a directory tree like this...   
      
   note the news areas at the bottom and the gated news groups ([GNG]) in the   
   '/a/' section for what i spoke of on splitting on the dots and dashes...   
      
      
   *path*\fido\netmail.*   
   *path*\fido\3634\admin.*   
   *path*\fido\3634\chat.*   
   [...]   
   *path*\fido\3634\sysops.*   
   *path*\fido\backbone\1\10th_amd.*   
   *path*\fido\backbone\a\abled.*   
   [...]   
   *path*\fido\backbone\a\akchat.*   
   *path*\fido\backbone\a\all-poli.*   
   *path*\fido\backbone\a\alt\bbs\ads.*   
   *path*\fido\backbone\a\alt\comp\anti\virus.*   
   [...]   
   *path*\fido\backbone\w\win95.*   
   *path*\fido\backbone\w\windows.*   
   *path*\fido\backbone\w\wx_talk.*   
   *path*\fido\backbone\y\yahoonws.*   
   *path*\fido\backbone\z\z1_bbone.*   
   *path*\fido\backbone\z\zec.*   
   [...]   
   *path*\fido\private\fdbeta.*   
   *path*\fido\private\fe_beta.*   
   *path*\fido\private\filegate\ifdc.*   
   *path*\fido\private\ftsc\ftsc.*   
   *path*\fido\private\jam_dev.*   
   [...]   
   *path*\fido\r18\host18.*   
   *path*\fido\r18\hub.*   
   [...]   
   *path*\fido\r18\sysop18.*   
   *path*\fido\z1b\z1b_coor.*   
   *path*\fido\z1_only\z1c.*   
   *path*\fido\z1_only\z1_echom.*   
   *path*\fido\z1_only\z1_elect.*   
   *path*\fido\z1_only\z1_rtng.*   
   *path*\fido\z1_only\z1_sysop.*   
   *path*\local\newfiles.*   
   *path*\local\postoffi.*   
   *path*\news\alt\audio\pro\l-sound.*   
   *path*\news\rec\test.*   
   *path*\news\rec\arts\movies\prod\sound.*   
   *path*\news\rec\audio\pro.*   
   *path*\news\sci\space\news.*   
   *path*\news\sci\space\policy.*   
   *path*\news\sci\space\science.*   
      
      
   )\/(ark   
   member, FastEcho Beta Team   
      
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