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to: Digital Man
from: deon
date: 2023-06-25 21:17:00
subject: Packet 2.2

  Re: Packet 2.2
  By: deon to Digital Man on Sun Jun 25 2023 08:57 pm

OK, I think I found a different problem with packet 2.2 format...

sbbsecho.log shows: (ie: packet to 3/997 - as defined - not to a point)

===
2023-06-25 20:59:39 Sending packet (/opt/sbbs/temp/sbbsecho/64981e1f.pkt, 0.5KB) from 10:1/4 to 10:3/997
2023-06-25 20:59:39 File (../fido/outbound.00a/64981e1f.pkt, 0.5KB) for 10:3/997 added to BSO/FLO file: ../fido/outbound.00a/000303e5.hlo
===

However packet dump says it is going to 3/997.5:

===
root@alterant:outbound.00a# pktdump 64981e1f.pkt
pktdump rev 1.18 - Dump FidoNet Packets

Opening 64981e1f.pkt
64981e1f.pkt Packet Type 2.2 (prod: FF, rev: 3) from 10:1/4@private to 10:3/997.5@private
===

Hexdump of the packet shows:

===
[root@a-2-1 outbound.00a]# hexdump -Cn 58 64981e1f.pkt
00000000  04 00 e5 03 e7 07 05 00  19 00 14 00 3b 00 27 00  |............;.'.|
00000010  02 00 02 00 01 00 03 00  ff 03 4c 00 00 00 00 00  |..........L.....|
00000020  00 00 0a 00 0a 00 70 72  69 76 61 74 65 00 70 72  |......private.pr|
00000030  69 76 61 74 65 00 00 00  00 00                    |ivate.....|
===

Indeed:
 0x04 should be zero (instead shows 2023 - Year?)
 0x06 should be zero (instead shows 05 - Month?)
 0x08 should be zero (? - reserved) but is probably the rest of the date from a type 2 packet?)


...лоеп

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