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|    Deon George to Andrew Leary    |
|    TIC files    |
|    12 Sep 18 13:54:27    |
      Hi Andrew,              Got another one for you.              I've noticed that I receive tic files from non MBSE BBS's (Mystic at the       moment), and those tic files have a name similar to the file they are       representing. EG: pinet.tic for pinet.250, fsxinfo.tic for fsxinfo.zip.              MBSE is not processing those tic files - however if I renamed the tic file to       have 8 numbers (with .tic) at the end, they were processed. EG: I renamed       pinet.tic to 00000000.tic and it was processed.              I had a quick look at FTSC specs (5006.001 and 1039.001), and it doesnt       mention anything about how a tic file should be named (character limit nor       only numerical/hex chars, etc).              I then had a quick look at the code mbfido/tic.c and it looks like it will       only process a tic file if it has a length of 12 chars (being 8 chars plus       ".tic"). Could this be changed? Or is it referenced somewhere else that tic       files should be 8 chars (suffixed with .tic) and other BBS software is not       following that standard?              ...deon              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 (Raspberry Pi/32)        * Origin: Chinwag | MysticBBS in Docker! (3:633/509.1)    |
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