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Skriven 2009-11-16 13:20:14 av Michael Dukelsky (2:5020/1042)
Ärende: FTS-4009
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Hello All,

The election is over so hopefully I may now ask my questions on the
FTS-4009.001.

The FTS-4009 states the following format for a Via line:

    ^AVia <FTN Address> @YYYYMMDD.HHMMSS[.Precise][.Time Zone]
    <Program Name> <Version> [Serial Number]<CR>

It also says that the fields of Program Name, Version and Serial Number have up
to ten characters each. After defining all the fields the standard has also 13
examples of valid usage. I placed the line numbers in front of the examples for
easier referencing.

01  ^AVia 1:2/3 @19990305.043212.UTC O/T-Track+ 2.69
02  ^AVia 1:2/3@fidonet @19980331.231202.UTC FrontDoor 2.32.mL
03  ^AVia 1:2/3.0 @19990101.002102.UTC FastEcho 1.46.1 21321
04  ^AVia 1:2/3 @19990323.230132 FakeMail 1.2
05  ^AVia 1:2/3 @20030403.182824.UTC Gleipner/Java 1.0/pre
06  ^AVia 1:2/3 @20030403.193223.UTC hpt 1.2.2-stable/os2
07  ^AVia D'Bridge 1.58 1:2/3  04/03 20:47
08  ^AVia 1:2/3@fidonet @20030404.030004.UTC O/T-Track+ 2.66b
09  ^AVia Squish/386 1.11 1:2/3, Thu Apr 03 2003 at 23:16 UTC
10  ^AVia 1:2/3 FTrack 3.1/W32 04 Apr 2003 09:33:07 UTC+1000
11  ^AVia ifmail 1:2/3@fidonet, Fri Apr 11 2003 at 06:01 (2.15)
12  ^AVia RTrk+ 1:2/3@fidonet, Apr 22 2003 at 18:25
13  ^AVia BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-4 1:2/3.0, @030505155114 EDT+5

One may see that only examples 1-4 and 8 are really valid. The example 5 has
more than 10 characters in the 'Program Name' field (Gleipner/Java) and the
example 6 has more than 10 characters in the 'Version' field
(1.2.2-stable/os2). The examples 7 and 9-13 have the order and/or the format of
their fields not complying with the above definition and should IMHO be placed
in a new paragraph 5 of examples of deprecated usage. Or maybe I've missed
anything and all the examples are valid?

I also have a suggestion. The fields 'Program Name', 'Version' and 'Serial
Number' have up to 10 characters each. But in my opinion only their total
length is important and not the length of each field. So maybe it would be
better to declare that these 3 fields should have in total up to 32 characters
including 2 space characters between the fields.

Michael

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