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echo: muffin
to: andrew clarke
from: Bo Simonsen
date: 2003-05-31 12:20:52
subject: Hmm.. bug

Hello andrew!

May 31 17:06 03, andrew clarke wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 BS>> Andrew has discovered a bug.. Maximus is inserting a empty klugde in
 BS>> the end of the control information..

 ac> I just tried this here with Maximus/NT 3.01 and it did the same 
 ac> thing, so it's not a bug restricted to the UNIX port.

Hah.. I guess, it's because the tosser isn't expected to set extra klugdes..
Maybe it's set because some stoneage software couldn't handle the message
without that extra klugde.

 ac> Check the ctxt part of the message in the original .sqd file.  It 
 ac> will end in 0x01 0x00 instead of just 0x00.

Indeed.

 BS>> Does somebody know why it does?

 BS>> The tosser/reader/etc should figure out by it self, that the klugde
 BS>> section is empty, because the line isn't started by a \1

 ac> HPT is just doing what it's told.  I don't know why this wasn't 
 ac> discovered ages ago (maybe it was?).

Ofcause.

 ac> Not to worry, it's not a serious problem...

I don't expect so :)

Regards,
Bo

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