On 10/05/14, mark lewis pondered and said...   
       
    ml> ButOfCourse ;)   
      
   aha.   
      
    ml> yup... FE and most traditional tools still require 8.3 naming for the   
    ml> files they use... in the case of FE, one just needs to provide an max 8   
    ml> character portion as the .3 portion is forced to be the JAM   
    ml> extensions... the areatags can be pretty long but i don't recall exactly   
    ml> how long without going and looking...   
      
    ml> aside: something i did a while back was to separate my areas into groups    
    ml> and then subdivided those by first letter to help avoid duplicate   
    ml> names... FE does have an internal method of generating names (FExxxxxx)   
    ml> 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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