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|    August Abolins to Martin Foster    |
|    oxp: does not like long filenames?    |
|    21 Apr 19 00:29:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet d7a02a1b       REPLY: 2:240/2188.31@fidonet d799c397       PID: OpenXP/5.0.38 (Win32)       CHRS: IBMPC 2       Hello Martin!              ** 20.04.19 - 13:13, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:              MF> I've just sent you a file with a filename of 30 characters and it       MF> seemed to get sent without problems. However, I notice that your       MF> filename is *very* long, perhaps OpenXP has a limit on filename       MF> length? I'll ask the developer.              Did not work. Did not receive that one.              MEANWHILE, I think I found a bug. I tested a FA with a short filename        that contained spaces:              ÚÄ Fidomailer ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ00:00:04Ä¿       ³ Secure authentication successful ³       ³ Sending 21002115.PKT ³       ³ Sending MY THINKPAD T60.JPG ³       ³ Sent 21002115.PKT ³       ³ ³       ³ ³       ³ ³       ³ ³       ³ ³       ³ ³       ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ              ..and the crash call to your boss node locked up, and the logs do not show        that file in the transaction ..only the message packet with a short        message to you went out.              The problem seems to be the spaces in the filename? ..and there is a        certain length limit because I do not get the longname file you tried to        send.                             ../|ug              ---        * Origin: /|ug's Point, ONT, CANADA (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 123/1970 203/0 221/1 6 360 226/17 229/107 354       SEEN-BY: 229/426 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 292/789       SEEN-BY: 292/854 8125 317/3 322/757 335/364 342/200 393/68       PATH: 221/1 292/854 229/426           |
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