Subj : sbbsecho and bad packets
To : deon
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Oct 06 2025 05:53 pm
Re: sbbsecho and bad packets
By: deon to Digital Man on Mon Oct 06 2025 01:07 pm
> Re: sbbsecho and bad packets
> By: Digital Man to deon on Sun Oct 05 2025 06:09 pm
>
> > Looks to me like the DateTime is missing the NUL terminator:
> > 00000040 79 02 79 02 00 00 00 00 30 33 20 4f 63 74 20 32 |y.y.....03
> > Oct 2| 00000050 35 20 20 30 37 3a 31 37 3a 34 37 20 41 6c 6c 00 |5
> > 07:17:47 All.|
>
> > > Why is SBBSecho marking them bad?
>
> > The sbbsecho.log should say the reason why, but it's probably the same
> > reason.
>
> I didnt think DateTime was a null terminated string? Its 20 Bytes in the
> packed message header (FTS-0001.16 C.1).
>
> "A packed message has a number of fixed length
> fields followed by four null terminated strings."
>
> (those being: to/from/subject and text are null terminated).
>
> Or have a missed something?
DateTime is defined as follows in FTS-1:
DateTime = (* a character string 20 characters long *)
(* 01 Jan 86 02:34:56 *)
DayOfMonth " " Month " " Year " "
" " HH ":" MM ":" SS
Null
The "Null" is explicit there. These FidoNet specs are pretty terrible, but FTS-1 is one of the better ones. :-)
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