Subj : Bug related to Bullseye bulletin board?
To : Digital Man
From : Karloch
Date : Tue Nov 04 2008 12:12 am
Re: Bug related to Bullseye bulletin board?
By: Digital Man to Karloch on Sun Nov 02 2008 21:48:16
> Hm... What's the length of the file (in bytes)? I didn't receive the
> e-mail.
I tried to email the file to you, but your mail server keeps rejecting my
messaage (I was using your address at www.synchro.net).
Anyway, I solved the mistery. It turned out to not be a bug, I'll explain...
> 4 bytes per character? No, it's ASCII - one byte per character, so after
> reading 3<CR><LF>, the file position should be 3. Unless you converted it
> to UTF-32?
You're absolutely right: it's 1 byte/char. I was afraid my text editor switched
the format from ANSI to UTF-8, but that was not the case. The <CR><LF> you put
turned on my alarms.
Last summer I migrated my BBS from Synchronet/Linux to Synchronet/Win32. The
process was smooth, but some things remain in Unix format. The bullseye.cfg was
ANSI Unix, using just <LF> as endline char, not the <CR><LF> from DOS. This was
the thing confusing the program. As soon as I converted the file to DOS format
the bulletin started working again.
A question about Unix->Win32 migration, is it necessary to switch the path
backslash from "/" to "\" in every path specified at the SCFG utility? What
about configuration files?
