Subj : src/sbbs3/scfg/scfgxfr1.c
To   : Git commit to main/sbbs/master
From : Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)
Date : Sun Sep 20 2026 04:50:42

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/8d88e05786e192abbaee3e08
Modified Files:
	src/sbbs3/scfg/scfgxfr1.c
Log Message:
scfg: say what %f, %s and %g mean in a transfer-protocol command line

The File Transfer Protocols help named the four command lines a protocol
can have but never said what the specifiers substituted into them expand
to, so nothing told a sysop how the batch forms differ from the
single-file ones.

Spell out all three, and in particular that a batch download offers a
choice: %f is a list-file holding one full path per line, while %s
expands to every one of those paths on the command line itself.  The
latter is the trap -- cmdstr() truncates the expanded command line at 511
characters, the size of its output buffer on every platform, so %s
silently drops files from a large batch.  The stock entries all use the
list-file form, @%f.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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