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  Re: sbbsecho and bad packets
  By: deon to Digital Man on Tue Oct 07 2025 07:49 pm

 >   Re: sbbsecho and bad packets
 >   By: Digital Man to deon on Mon Oct 06 2025 11:30 pm
 >
 > Howdy,
 >
 >  > Indeed, yes, but the DateTime field definition for the packed message is
 >  > "inherited" from the Stored Message definition - it's not redefined.
 >
 > I'm not seeing what you are seeing - but ok.

FSP-1042 (still in draft stage) has the packed message header more clearly
defined:
,-------------------------------------------------------------
                 | Name         | Type | Length     | Description             
|                 +--------------+------+------------+----------
---------------+                 | dateTime     | nStr | Exactly 19 | Date and
time of message |                 | toUserName   | nStr | 0-35       | User
the message is to   |                 | fromUserName | nStr | 0-35       |
User the message is from |                 | subject      | nStr | 0-71      
| Message subject          |                 | text         | nStr |
0-Infinity | Message body             |                 `-------
------+------+------------+--------------------------'


The nStr type is defined (in FSP-1024) as:
nStr:
        NUL-terminated string.  A sequence of zero or more non-NUL
        characters followed by a single NUL character.  If a length is
        specified, does NOT include the terminating NUL.  If an nStr
        with a length of 19 is stored, it will take 20 bytes of
        storage because of the terminating NUL.

 > I'll tell this node that they need to have their software fixed to not send
 > DateTimes as a 20 byte field, but a null terminated string - I think the
 > source is hpt, so lets see if they agree...

I think you have that backwards, the DateTime must be a null terminated
string: exactly 19 characters followed by a NUL.
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