Subj : Max subject length: 71 or 72 chars?
To : Ward Dossche
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sun Aug 25 2019 02:53 pm
Re: Max subject length: 71 or 72 chars?
By: Ward Dossche to Alexey Vissarionov on Sun Aug 25 2019 04:10 pm
> Alexey,
>
> WD>> Please be aware that this "discussion" is nothing more than a single
> WD>> message by a single person...
>
> AV> ... with nobody been able to disprove that :-)
>
> Nothing needed to be disproven as the spec is pretty straightforward.
I disagree. I think it's ambiguous and incomplete, if not misleading.
> It's just that native english speakers needed to be made aware.
Is FTS-1 available in another language, where it's possibly more complete? I'm not clear what "english speaking" has to do with it.
Here's what FTS-1 has to say about the message subject in Stored Messages in
section B1:
+-----------------------+-----------------------+
72 48 | |
~ subject ~
| 72 bytes |
+-----------------------+-----------------------+
...
subject(72) (* see FileList below *)
No mention that a null-terminator is required.
No mention that the actual/usable number of characters in a message subject is in fact 71 characters (not 72).
Now, section C1 (Packed Message definition) is little better:
But again, it should be made clear that the "72 bytes" here includes the required null terminator, so a message subject is in fact limited to a maxmimum length of 71 characters.
