Subj : Bug related to Bullseye bulletin board?
To : Karloch
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Nov 04 2008 03:07 pm
Re: Bug related to Bullseye bulletin board?
By: Karloch to Digital Man on 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.
Ah, that makes sense. It was probably reading the entire file in that first
file.readln() call then.
> 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?
No, forward slash works fine on Win32.
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