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   Message 31,435 of 33,243   
   Gamgee to Digital Man   
   Re: FreqIt doesn't respond to incoming .   
   14 Mar 25 20:31:17   
   
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   MSGID: 57490.sync_sys@1:103/705 2c3af75c   
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   PID: Synchronet 3.20e-Linux master/4f2886fce Mar 08 2025 GCC 14.2.0   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.23-Linux master/69f4a097d Mar 12 2025 GCC 12.2.0   
   BBSID: PALANTIR   
   CHRS: CP437 2   
   -=> Digital Man wrote to Dan Clough <=-   
      
    >  > 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.   
      
    DM> If you're using BinkIt, then you're not using freqit.js as BinkIT has   
    DM> the FreqIT functionality integrated into it. freqit.js is for enabling   
    DM> Synchronet file request service (responding to file requests) when   
    DM> *not* using BinkIT (e.g. using BinkD instead).   
      
   Ahhhh, yes indeed.  I knew that but had forgotten.  Okay, so *if* there    
   is a bug it may be in binkit.js or perhaps freqit_common.js.  All I know    
   for sure is that it only works with lowercase for me, and for now at    
   least, that's OK.  :-)  Thanks again DM.   
      
      
      
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