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|    Message 9,945 of 11,842    |
|    Alexander Grotewohl to Andy Gorman    |
|    Re: Reading dat files    |
|    07 May 21 13:20:29    |
      From: nospam.Alexander.Grotewohl@f616.n120.z1.fidonet.org              On 07 May 2021, Andy Gorman said the following...               AG> First I'm noticing that user names that are less than 8 characters are        AG> getting s ome piece of the word "unknown" appended to them. For        AG> example, a username of "T rip" looks like "Tripown" when I pull it from        AG> the file (The BBS reads it properl y).              are you correctly fetching the first byte of the username as the length?              if you read through all the users using the same set of variables you can       definitely end up with unexpected data in memory.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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