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 Message 478 
 Janis Kracht to Robert Wolfe 
 Re: Rudi is gone 
 04 Sep 14 00:08:52 
 
Hi Robert,

>-> hope there's interest in someone else picking up the job of Moderator.  Now
>-> the software was buggy, then there's no point I guess?  I've never used it
> -> don't know .... anyone?

> The only issue I have with it is that it will not let me add
> WILDCAT!_SUPPORT since it has the special characters in the name, and
> from what I can tell, the developer isn't going to release an update
> that will fix that issue.

Just thinking about that issue from a programming perspective... I can't
imagine someone would limit a field to only alphas for essentially a "name
field". Digits should also of course be included, and so you'd expect other
chars, certainly if one consulted a list of echos on the backbone. A string is
a string is a string which is what I'd be looking at for a "name" field.

Now maybe WILDCAT!_SUPPORT is too long.. 16 chars... do you have anyway to
check to see what it's storing for the area names? Eight chars are classic,
but....

Oops.. that dang ! would have to be escaped, but any programmer who can
compile would know that .

Do you have any other areas on your tablet that are that long? Just thinking...

Take care,
Janis

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