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   Wilfred van Velzen to Fermin Sanchez   
   Re: Node Manager->Packet pwd: UPPERCASE    
   13 May 21 23:26:17   
   
   TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815   
   RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes   
   TZUTC: 0200   
   CHRS: UTF-8 2   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221   
   MSGID: 2:280/464 609d9a85   
   REPLY: 2:301/123 609d923c   
   Hi Fermin,   
      
   On 2021-05-13 22:53:30, you wrote to All:   
      
    FS> I noticed that the packet password I enter in the node manager is   
    FS> taken in uppercase only, regardless of what I do or don't do with my   
    FS>  key. Am I overlooking something, or is this by   
    FS> design/fido-standard?   
      
   It's intentionally done this way by the original author of FMail. So I suspect   
   it's a (kind of) fidonet standard.   
      
   FTS-0001 However doesn't specify anything about the content of the password   
   field. But in http://ftsc.org/docs/fsc-0039.001 we read:   
      
   Type-2 Packet Format (proposed, but currently in use)   
   -----------------------------------------------------   
     Field    Ofs Siz Type  Description                Expected value(s)   
     -------  --- --- ----  -------------------------- -----------------   
   [...]   
     Password  1A   8 Char  Packet password            A-Z,0-9   
      
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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