I'm running Allfix 5.13 under Windows XP (I had that memory bug with Allfix 6 where Allfix would hang, the only solution was to go back to 5).

I recently switched mailers from Radius to Binkit, and noticed that my mailer is not recognizing the .*lo files created by Allfix. Allfix is creating files with uppercase alpha characters, but according to the spec:

According to http://ftsc.org/docs/frl-1034.001:

Name of flow file is formed from network and node number of remote
system, expressed as 4 hexadecimal digits each, zero-padded on the
left. Thus information concerning to node 104/36 is stored in flow
and control files with name "00680024" with different extension.
Hexadecimal digits must be lower case if it is supported by OS file
system.

Is there a way to force Allfix to use lower-case characters in .*lo file names?

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According to http://ftsc.org/docs/frl-1034.001:

Name of flow file is formed from network and node number
of remote
system, expressed as 4 hexadecimal digits each,
zero-padded on the
left. Thus information concerning to node 104/36 is
stored in flow
and control files with name "00680024" with dreites
extension.
Hexadecimal digits must be lower case if it is supported
by OS file
system.

Is there a way to force Allfix to use lower-case
characters in .*lo file names?

Because Allfix 5 was written for dos in the DOS days, it defaults everything to
uppercase. Even the original 6 code had that. THis is also one of the things that v7 is changing is to see if the OS is case sensitive.

I know with the binkd verion I run, there are options in the config file that will translate the case for me from upper to lower. I am not familure with your
program so Im not sure if there are options within there to allow for the translation of filenames.

Ken

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Hello Kurt,

On Tuesday January 15 2019 08:46, you wrote to All:

I recently switched mailers from Radius to Binkit, and noticed that my mailer is not recognizing the .*lo files created by Allfix. Allfix is creating files with uppercase alpha characters, but according to the
spec:

According to http://ftsc.org/docs/frl-1034.001:

The frl* documents are NOt standards. "frl" stands for Fidonet Reference Library". The library consists mainly of proposals that for some reason did NOT
make it into standards.

The relevant standard is FTS.5003.003

http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-5005.003

=== quote ===

Filename case sensitivity - the case of the BSO filenames depends on
the OS file system. Lower case filenames are prefered if supported
by the file system. If the OS file system supports lower and upper
case filenames, the software should be able to handle both for
maximum compatibility. That behaviour might be controlled by a
configuration option.

=== end quote ===

Is there a way to force Allfix to use lower-case characters in .*lo
file names?

There isn't. But you should address the author of Binkit. That is the one not honouring the standard. "the software should be able to handle both for maximum
compatibility."


Cheers, Michiel

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