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  Re: sbbsecho and bad packets
  By: Digital Man to deon on Mon Oct 06 2025 05:53 pm

 >  > I didnt think DateTime was a null terminated string? Its 20 Bytes in the
Howdy,

 >  > packed message header (FTS-0001.16 C.1).
 >
 >  > "A packed  message has a number of fixed  length
 >  >       fields followed by four null terminated strings."
 >
 >  > (those being: to/from/subject and text are null terminated).
 >
 >  > Or have a missed something?
 >
 > DateTime is defined as follows in FTS-1:
 >
 > DateTime   = (* a character string 20 characters long *)
 >                                      (* 01 Jan 86  02:34:56 *)
 >                    DayOfMonth " " Month " " Year " "
 >                    " " HH ":" MM ":" SS
 >                    Null
 >
 > The "Null" is explicit there. These FidoNet specs are pretty terrible, but
 > FTS-1 is one of the better ones. :-)

I think we quoted the same document. Except you quoted the "a Stored Message"
("as it is the layer that the user's application sees as opposed to what
FidoNet sees".) section, and I quoted the "Packed Message" ("As this is a data
structure which is actually transferred, its definition is critical to
FidoNet") section.

Anyway, does that mean SBBSecho will only accept packets if the datatime field
is encoded as a null terminated string?


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