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 Message 2372 
 Dan Richter to Alan Ianson 
 Re: BBBS TIC Files 
 26 Sep 20 20:39:20 
 
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REPLY: 1:153/757.2 d1946d36
TZUTC: -0600
TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2019-01-08
On 26 Sep 2020, Alan Ianson said the following...
 
 AI> Not all tic processors add a "Size" line. BBBS doesn't and I don't think
 AI> Allfix or the original "tic" or "flea" does either.

Actually Allfix does include the size in the tic file.

 AI> Is the lack of a "Size" line creating a problem for you? It would be easy
 AI> enough to add a "Size" line to tic files but there would need to be some
 AI> kind of a reason to do so.

It's not a huge issue. The program that I wrote to announce new files, pulls
it's information from the tic files. When the tic doesn't have a size in it,
all of the files show up as '0 bytes'. :/


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