Hello Deon!   
      
   12 Sep 18 13:54, you wrote to me:   
      
    DG> I've noticed that I receive tic files from non MBSE BBS's (Mystic at   
    DG> the moment), and those tic files have a name similar to the file they   
    DG> are representing. EG: pinet.tic for pinet.250, fsxinfo.tic for   
    DG> fsxinfo.zip.   
      
   Yes, I've noticed the same thing.   
      
    DG> MBSE is not processing those tic files - however if I renamed the tic   
    DG> file to have 8 numbers (with .tic) at the end, they were processed.   
    DG> EG: I renamed pinet.tic to 00000000.tic and it was processed.   
      
   I do the same thing with them when I find them in my inbound.   
      
    DG> I had a quick look at FTSC specs (5006.001 and 1039.001), and it   
    DG> doesnt mention anything about how a tic file should be named   
    DG> (character limit nor only numerical/hex chars, etc).   
      
   FTS-5006.001 specifies a filename in DOS 8.3 format.  Thus, it could be    
   interpreted that .TIC files with shorter or longer names are non-compliant.   
      
    DG> I then had a quick look at the code mbfido/tic.c and it looks like it   
    DG> will only process a tic file if it has a length of 12 chars (being 8   
    DG> chars plus ".tic"). Could this be changed? Or is it referenced   
    DG> somewhere else that tic files should be 8 chars (suffixed with .tic)   
    DG> and other BBS software is not following that standard?   
      
   In my mind, I consider Mystic's implementation to be non-compliant, although    
   it probably should be clarified in the FTSC documentation as well.   
      
   When James Coyle comes back to working on Mystic again, I intend to mention    
   this to him and see about getting it fixed.   
      
   If there appears to be a delay on this, I may add a switch to mbfido to enable    
   processing of these "extended" .TIC names.  MBSE will never create .TIC files    
   with other than a DOS 8.3 style name ending in .TIC.   
      
   Regards,   
      
   Andrew   
      
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