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Yet another memory cluttering feature for KA9Q

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From: Tom Wheeley
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 00:00
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I know memory is tight for KA9Q, but would it be possible to introduce code
for forming legal 8.3 filenames?

f.e. when getting a FAQ from rtfm.mit.edu, they are stored with the Subject:
line as filename, which is often about 80 characters of case-sensitive and
punctuation filled typo fodder.

What would be nice, would be to be able to type `mget faq??name*etc*' (with
the expression matching solely the required filename), and have a file be got,
albeit with a silly name.  At present, the chances of DOS finding a legal
8.3 name is as remote as DOS accepting a 255 char name :(

Perhaps a simpler solution would be to prompt for a new filename if DOS
rejects the default one, or if the file exists locally?

.splitbung
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