Subj : type 2.2 pkt header
To : Rob Swindell
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Sun Apr 16 2023 09:48 am
14 Apr 2023 11:48, you wrote to me:
>> My tosser calls FSC-39 packets "Type 2+"...
RS> What does your tosser call FSC-48 formatted packets?
"Type 2+" too. That is what it shows in the toss logs.
>> My question was about the "defacto standard" that Maurice
>> mentioned. It may seem that the most common is FSC-39: hpt, FMail,
>> Squish, Mystic, etc.
RS> My recollection was that most packets that I see are in FSC-48 format
RS> (i.e. include the auxNet field), but I'll double-check that.
IIUC, FSC-39.4 and FSC-48 packets are identical unless they are generated by a point system.
I have PKTs from points using FMail, WinPoint, OpenXP, HotdogEd, Aftershock. All of them are FSC-39. Will try to get some from other tossers/packages.
I got the idea that FSC-39 may be more common from a message by Oli (posted some years ago):
=== Cut ===
I compiled a list of the supported packet formats for popular tossers 4 years
ago. I don't know if anything has changed since then and it might be not 100%
accurate, but it looks like FSC-0039 is the standard that most tossers use for
outbound packets and that every tosser can read.
