Subj : Current message pointer corrupted for user?
To : Khelair
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jun 01 2015 02:28 am
Re: Current message pointer corrupted for user?
By: Khelair to All on Sun May 31 2015 04:26 pm
> So I've run into an interesting problem lately. Something that I've done
> has completely hosed the msg_area.scan_ptr, potentially in multiple message
> areas. I'm not sure what's caused it but I'm pretty sure that I've got rid
> of it. 'Course either way I still need to be able to reset it to a 'sane'
> value so that I can resume testing this software with this login, or be able
> to recover a different login should I start using it.
> Here's a little dump of the debug information that I've got. Please note
> that sBoard is a msg_area object and mBase is a MsgBase object.
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-
>
> Babble> Using node #: 1
> Read backward
> Entered scanSub(); forward = false user.cursub: topegrpbabble
> sBoard.code: topegrpbabble
> Opened: topegrpbabble allegedly . . .
> mBase.error:
> sBoard.scan_ptr = 2060051968
> mBase.first_msg = 1
> mBase.total_msgs = 13
> mBase.last_msg = 13
> Inc: -1 based on forward
> In main scanSub() loop tmpPtr: 2060051969 total_msgs: 13 is_open: yes
> DEBUG: Next Msg
> End of scanSub() main loop
> tmpPtr: 2060051968 inc: -1
> rcChoice() called w/base: topegrpbabble ndx: 2060051968
> Using node #: 1
> Reopened topegrpbabble to check for updates
>
> [Babble> msg #2060051969 (-2060051955 remaining)] Read cmd ->
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-
> If anybody has any ideas on how to reset that number easily (other than in
> code, I'm hoping) to something sane (ie in this case 1-13), I would very
> much appreciate it.
That message number *could* be valid. Each message imported into the message
base or posted gets a unique number. So just because you currently have 13
messages does not mean their message numbers (for internal use) would be 1
through 13.
> I think at one point I just didn't have the edge case
> defined well enough and it ran off to the negative overflow area of a long
> when I was doing a backwards message scan.
> Any ideas appreciated. Thanks for your time.
You can use the &P command from the main menu of the default command shell to
set/reset your msg scan pointers.
digital man
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