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Synchronet having trouble with long filenames or some specific characters.

I'm trying to download a recently added file.

Jan  7 16:34:19 bbs synchronet: term Node 1 <nelgin> Executing external: /sbbs/exec/sexyz 40 -raw sz "/nfs/bbs/totaldos/1982/21 (1982)(PCC, Inc.) [Strategy].zip"
Jan  7 16:34:19 bbs synchronet: term Node 1 <nelgin> sexyz: Synchronet External X/Y/ZMODEM  v3.1  master/20122f0d3  Copyright Rob Swindell
Jan  7 16:34:19 bbs synchronet: term Node 1 <nelgin> sexyz: !/nfs/bbs/totaldos/1982/21 (1982)(PCC, Inc.) [Strategy].zip not found
Jan  7 16:34:19 bbs synchronet: term Node 1 <nelgin> sexyz: !No files to send
Jan  7 16:34:19 bbs synchronet: term Node 1 <nelgin> attempted to download file: /nfs/bbs/totaldos/1982/21 (1982)(PCC, Inc.) [Strategy].zip

The file exists, obviously,

# ls -l "/nfs/bbs/totaldos/1982/21 (1982)(PCC, Inc.) [Strategy].zip"
-rw-r--r-- 1 1030 1030 25696 Feb 19  2017 '/nfs/bbs/totaldos/1982/21 (1982)(PCC, Inc.) [Strategy].zip'