TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A42   
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   Hey Andrew,   
      
   On 16 Mar 2019, Andrew Leary said the following...   
    AL> There isn't a setting to prevent the creation of symlinks.  MBSE creates    
    AL> symlinks to ensure that every file has both an 8.3 DOS compatible   
    AL> filename and the "real" full filename.   
      
   OK, I think there are opportunities for the TIC processing to be improved.   
   This is something I wanted to look at for a long time, but I just cant seem   
   to find the time or headspace to look into it.   
      
   Here is an example of what I see:   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 mbse bbs 1063026 Dec  2 21:55 NULL003L32.Z   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 mbse bbs 1027027 Dec  2 21:55 NULL003RPI.Z   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 mbse bbs  780512 Dec  2 21:55 NULL003W32.Z   
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 mbse bbs      12 Dec  7 20:29 null003l32.zip -> NULL003L32.Z   
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 mbse bbs      12 Dec  7 20:29 null003rpi.zip -> NULL003RPI.Z   
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 mbse bbs      12 Dec  7 20:29 null003w32.zip -> NULL003W32.Z   
      
   and   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 mbse bbs  238387 Oct  2 21:13 TDFSTUDIO110   
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 mbse bbs      12 Nov  8 21:39 tdfstudio110_l32.zip ->   
   TDFSTUDIO110   
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 mbse bbs      12 Nov  8 21:39 tdfstudio110_rpi.zip ->   
   TDFSTUDIO110   
      
   In the second output, you'll see that I received something inbound, it was   
   converted to uppercase and truncated to 12 chars (the DOS format?) and then   
   symlinked to the unix format (name untouched). In the process, one of these   
   links is wrong.   
      
   I would like to see incoming files be tossed and stored "as received"   
   (since MBSE is running on Linux - converted to lowercase if necessary), and   
   the symlink be created to support DOS conventions (if it cannot be disabled).   
   Additionally, the DOS link should be 8.3 chars and if there is no extension,   
   it should just be 8 chars (and all uppercase). (The first output above is   
   wrong for DOS).   
      
   I have a mess of a badtic dir and file areas because MBSE doesnt handle large   
   filenames well - and I know you've just released an update (which I'm yet to   
   look at) - I'm not sure if it will help the issue I'm seeing.   
      
   ...deon   
      
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