= Сообщение: 6998 из 7128 ====================================== FTSC_PUBLIC = От : Rob Swindell 1:103/705 29 Dec 23 16:15:15 Кому : Michiel van der Vlist 29 Dec 23 16:15:15 Тема : FSP-10xx-1: BBSID Kludge Specification FGHI : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=32463.ftsc_pub@1:103/705+29f515e2 На : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=2:280/5555+658eca19 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP437 ================================== ============================================================================== Re: FSP-10xx-1: BBSID Kludge Specification By: Michiel van der Vlist to Rob Swindell on Fri Dec 29 2023 02:31 pm
> Hello Rob, > > On Wednesday December 27 2023 18:50, you wrote to me: > > >> 2) What exactly do you mean by "monocased"? > >> A) Upper case only. > >> B) Either case but the same case for all characters in the string. > >> C) Any case but case will be ignored when processing. > >> D) Something else. > > RS> A. > > Then I suggest you call it just that: "upper case". Using exotic synonims > may benefit poets and novel writers but technical documentation should be as > clear and unambigues as possible. Especially when part of the intended > audience has a different native languange than the author. I have never come > across "monocased" and even Google can not help me.
I didn't invent the term "monocase". e.g. pg 259 of K&R's C Programming Language.
> >> 4) But why all these restrictions? > > RS> QWK software is largely MS-DOS software, sor for a BBS ID to be > RS> QWK-compatible, it generally needs a MS-DOS-compatible base filename. > > Backward compatibility has pros and cons. In the beginning of a transition > process it can be usefull but later in the transition process the pros erode > and the cons get stronger. It gets in the way of the new. Your BBSID > proposal is presented as a means to facilitate the use of Avatars in > messages. For this use the maximum of 8 upper case ASCII characters is a > serious and needless limitation. So why insist on backward compatibility > with QWK. QWK is not even a Fidonet standard!
I suppose no good reason. For this purpose, any string would actually do.
> RS> I'm not saying it should be. I'm just documenting this new kludge that > RS> you and other FTN nodes will find on their networks now (and over the > RS> past few years). > > For things that are not strictly within Fidonet but that are usefull to be > documented anyway, there is the reference library.
Sure, that'd work fine. Worst case, I'll just put this on my wiki.
> >> 6) As a side note I would like to add that the idea is not entirely > >> new. > > RS> This is in actual use and has been for years now. It's not just an > RS> idea. > > Henk Wever's GIF kludge was not just an idea either. It has been in actual > use for several years.
I've never seen the "GIF kludge" in actual use. <shrug>
But in any case (I can't seem to find the FTSC doc that describes that kludge), my recollection was that other Avatar/Gif thing provided a link to an image file to be used as an avatar. Not the same thing as a correlatable system ID (what I'm doing). -- digital man (rob)
Sling Blade quote #17: Charles Bushman: A shovel just makes too goddamned much racket. Norco, CA WX: 62.2°F, 72.0% humidity, 1 mph ENE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)
