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    From nolageek@1:103/705 to All on Sat Feb 20 17:21:32 2021
    Digital Man,

    I'd like to add a few of my mods as loadable modules but I notice that some only allow 8 characters (like automessage) while others accept long file names. Will you be allowing the others to use LFN in the future?



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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to nolageek on Sat Feb 20 18:20:35 2021
    Re: Loadable module filename length
    By: nolageek to All on Sat Feb 20 2021 05:21 pm

    Digital Man,

    I'd like to add a few of my mods as loadable modules but I notice that some only allow 8 characters (like automessage) while others accept long file names. Will you be allowing the others to use LFN in the future?

    Yes, at some point. The original modules were just module names (limited to 8 chars), while newer ones allow a full command-line to be specified.

    I'll be fixing that when the .cnf files migrate to some other config file format (e.g .ini) at some point.
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  • From nolageek@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Sat Feb 20 22:55:40 2021
    Re: Loadable module filename length
    By: Digital Man to nolageek on Sat Feb 20 2021 06:20 pm

    Yes, at some point. The original modules were just module names (limited to 8 chars), while newer ones allow a full command-line to be specified.

    Excellent.

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