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to: MARK LEWIS
from: MARK HOFMANN
date: 2016-03-01 21:23:00
subject: Re: FSP-1040.001 draft 0

ml> yup... i believe you added the functionality to process MSGs without the
ml> ending NUL to WWIVTOSS "recently"... i remembering writing my previous to
ml> you some years ago ;)

Palm to the forhead moment there.  It just clicked and I remember working on
that or a similar issue with WWIVTOSS.  It had to do with replying to messages
having an empty space at the end of the person's name.  It wasn't showing up in
the message but was causing BBS systems to not match their names on personal
newscans.

That was one of the things I fixed once we tracked down what was going on.

ml> it would be cool for WWIVTOSS to gain the ability to process PKTs
ml> directly... pulling the messages out and posting them would be identicle
ml> to extracting them from MSG files... there's just one or more messages in
ml> the one PKT file ;)

It can process PKT files or MSG files.  It can also optionally write directly
to the WWIV message bases.  That part of the code needs to be adjusted for
modern operating systems, though since it uses "spawn" which doesn't work in
Windows 7 and above.  

- Mark

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