On 10/05/14, mark lewis pondered and said...
 
 ml> ButOfCourse ;)

aha.

 ml> yup... FE and most traditional tools still require 8.3 naming for the
 ml> files they use... in the case of FE, one just needs to provide an max 8
 ml> character portion as the .3 portion is forced to be the JAM
 ml> extensions... the areatags can be pretty long but i don't recall exactly
 ml> how long without going and looking...

 ml> aside: something i did a while back was to separate my areas into groups 
 ml> and then subdivided those by first letter to help avoid duplicate
 ml> names... FE does have an internal method of generating names (FExxxxxx)
 ml> where the xes are hex (IIRC) and i think they are CRC16 of the areatag

Thanks, yep I figured this was the case. And thanks for the example of how
you split out the data files. I have something similar although not as
comprehensive as yours going on here too :-)


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