On 20 Nov 2020 at 01:23p, Michael Dukelsky pondered and said...

What is the maximum echo tag length that HPT can handle?

Sorry for the long delay, could not answer earlier.
An echo tag cannot be longer than 60 bytes.

Thanks so 60 characters including spaces - is that right?

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On 21 Nov 2020 at 12:50p, Michael Dukelsky pondered and said...

What is the maximum echo tag length that HPT can handle?

Sorry for the long delay, could not answer earlier.
An echo tag cannot be longer than 60 bytes.

Thanks so 60 characters including spaces - is that right?

No, 60 or less ASCII characters with decimal code >=33 and <=126. So
tab, space, carriage return and new line are not allowed.

Thanks Michael.

Could a provision be made to optionally extend this length further if someone using HPT wanted to run longer tag lengths?

Best, Paul

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Re: Re: Echo Tag Length
By: Paul Hayton to Michael Dukelsky on Tue Nov 24 2020 03:54 pm

On 21 Nov 2020 at 12:50p, Michael Dukelsky pondered and said...

What is the maximum echo tag length that HPT can handle?

Sorry for the long delay, could not answer earlier.
An echo tag cannot be longer than 60 bytes.

Thanks so 60 characters including spaces - is that right?

No, 60 or less ASCII characters with decimal code >=33 and <=126. So tab, space, carriage return and new line are not allowed.

Thanks Michael.

Could a provision be made to optionally extend this length further if someone using HPT wanted to run longer tag lengths?

For interoperability with other software (e.g. SBBSecho), I would recommend keeping echo/area-tags at 35 characters or less.
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Hello Paul!

24 Nov 20, Paul Hayton wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

Could a provision be made to optionally extend this length further if someone using HPT wanted to run longer tag lengths?

Because hpt is open source you could modifiy it by your own. I don't see the reason why someone would do that. A short echotag gives more space for the description.

Regards

Kai

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Hello Michael!

24 Nov 20, Michael Dukelsky wrote to Paul Hayton:

I don't think this is a good idea, because if some sysops increase the maximum areatag length for some echo while others do not, the latter
will not be able to receive the echo.

That was my first thought too. If the limit of 50 for older tossers is true then hpt should be limited to 50 too. But on the other hand if the FSC limit is 60 then it should be 60. But that is a fidonet limit then. Hpt is not an fidonet only tosser and other othernetwork may allow longer echotags.




Regards

Kai

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On 24 Nov 2020 at 10:30a, Michael Dukelsky pondered and said...

I don't think this is a good idea, because if some sysops increase the maximum areatag length for some echo while others do not, the latter
will not be able to receive the echo.

Yep all good (and thanks Frank, Rob et al.) I'm not pushing for a change, rather I was curious about current settings etc. Thanks for the feedback guys.

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