|01 ÜÜÛ²ßßÝßßß  °ß    °|CR²ß   quoting |09mark lewis |01on |0903/03/16 |07
 
 ml> individual line breakdown:
 ml> 1. looking at the first line, there's a problem with the date on the
 ml> left and the number of messages on the right...

The DOS version isn't Y2K comatible.

 ml> 4. the fourth line is missing the "BBS'" on the left side and the
 ml> following NOTE portion is missing the 6 bytes making up the
"[cia] "
 ml> portion that is not even show on the right...

The "[cia]" is for my own (stupid) uses. I just needed something
to fill the
space. It's basically just that, a "note" which is used
throughout the board.
The reason why it's different on the DOS version, is because, well, I haven't
set it to something besides the default. The default is "Impulse Sysop" for
the Sysop of the BBS.

 ml> 5. then there's the STAT line which doesn't even depict the same byte
 ml> values and on the right the "local" attribute is depicted
with a EOF
 ml> character...

I believe this is my fault. I used "pipe" codes to display the various
attributes (to, from, subject, etc) of the message. And after those "pipe"
codes, I used an "esc[7;1H" to anchor the message header. Somehow that ansi
code at the end carried over to the "Origin" line. BTW, an EOF
character is a
arrow pointing to the right :)

 ml> i'm not so sure that ansi is involved now that i look closer but there is
 ml> definitely a byte count problem somewhere... you need to look deeper at
 ml> what bytes are being seen by both flavors of the tosser because
 ml> something is not reading the bytes properly for display or is not
 ml> writing them properly to the message base... or maybe both... that 4th
 ml> line showing "[cia]" on the left and "impulse
sysop" on the right
 ml> confuses me right now... one or both should contain more or at least
 ml> parts of the other... the real question is what the original packed
 ml> message in the PKT looks like and were does that "[cia]"
portion come
 ml> from with... with or without the trailing space...

Again, that's for my arbitrary purposes. It has absolutely nothing to do with
the message packet or bundle.

Thanks for your time in studying this problem.

|09ignatius |07[|15cia|07]

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