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     Re: Re: FreqIt doesn't respond to incoming .req files   
     By: Dan Clough to Digital Man on Fri Mar 14 2025 07:45 pm   
      
    > -=> Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-   
    >   
    >  >  >  > > I have figured this out and will close the issue.  Apparently the   
    >  >  >  > > magic name defined in ../ctrl/freqit.ini (as in [ALLFILES]) must   
    >  >  >  > > be in lowercase.  I had it in all CAPS and when I changed it to   
    >  >  >  > > lowercase things work as expected.  Ugh.   
    >   
    >  >  > The code (freqit_common.js) calls wildmatch() for magic names,   
    >  >  > case-insensitively:   
    >  >  >         wildmatch(fent.name, match, true)   
    >   
    >  >  > so it certainly *should* be case-insensitive.   
    >   
    >  > Agreed that it *should* be, but I just tested things again and it most   
    >  > certainly is not.  I tested it by changing *ONLY* the case of the header   
    >  > in the freqit.ini file, and repeating the test from a remote system.   
    >   
    >  > Just to be clear what I'm talking about, I'm saying the section header in   
    >  > the freqit.ini file (as in: [ALLFILES]) does not work if it's all caps.   
    >  > When it is lowercase it works as expected.   
    >   
    >  > What I am *NOT* talking about is the file request netmail itself, on the   
    >  > Subject line.  That can be written: FR: ALLFILES ... or FR: allfiles ,   
    >  > and either one works fine.   
    >   
    >  > I welcome someone else trying this test and reporting results.   
    >   
    >  DM> I understand. I'm just looking at the code (freqit_common.js) and I see   
    >  DM> that it's using the Sync-JS global "wildmatch" function to do the magic   
    >  DM> name and filename comparisons against the requested name and that   
    >  DM> function (wildmatch, see https://www.synchro.net/docs/jsobjs.html for   
    >  DM> details) compares case-insensitively by default (the script author   
    >  DM> would have had to pass "true" as the first argument to wildmatch() for   
    >  DM> it to behave case-sensitively). So the intention of the script is for   
    >  DM> it to be compare case-insensitively. If it's not, it could be a bug in   
    >  DM> wildmatch() or perhaps in the script itself.   
    >   
    > Thank you for the reply, DM.  I've looked at those various parts of the   
    > code, but am not a .js developer and don't know what I'm seeing.  I do   
    > see several references to "fname.tolowercase" in the '../exec/freqit.js   
    > script and wonder if that is relevant.   
      
   If you're using BinkIt, then you're not using freqit.js as BinkIT has the   
   FreqIT functionality integrated into it. freqit.js is for enabling Synchronet   
   file request service (responding to file requests) when *not* using BinkIT   
   (e.g. using BinkD instead).   
   --    
                                               digital man (rob)   
      
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