Subj : Re: Impulse Linux versus Impulse DOS.
To : mark lewis
From : joseph larsen
Date : Thu Mar 03 2016 12:17 am
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ml> individual line breakdown:
ml> 1. looking at the first line, there's a problem with the date on the
ml> left and the number of messages on the right...
The DOS version isn't Y2K comatible.
ml> 4. the fourth line is missing the "BBS'" on the left side and the
ml> following NOTE portion is missing the 6 bytes making up the "[cia] "
ml> portion that is not even show on the right...
The "[cia]" is for my own (stupid) uses. I just needed something to fill the
space. It's basically just that, a "note" which is used throughout the board.
The reason why it's different on the DOS version, is because, well, I haven't
set it to something besides the default. The default is "Impulse Sysop" for
the Sysop of the BBS.
ml> 5. then there's the STAT line which doesn't even depict the same byte
ml> values and on the right the "local" attribute is depicted with a EOF
ml> character...
I believe this is my fault. I used "pipe" codes to display the various
attributes (to, from, subject, etc) of the message. And after those "pipe"
codes, I used an "esc[7;1H" to anchor the message header. Somehow that ansi
code at the end carried over to the "Origin" line. BTW, an EOF character is a
arrow pointing to the right :)
ml> i'm not so sure that ansi is involved now that i look closer but there is
ml> definitely a byte count problem somewhere... you need to look deeper at
ml> what bytes are being seen by both flavors of the tosser because
ml> something is not reading the bytes properly for display or is not
ml> writing them properly to the message base... or maybe both... that 4th
ml> line showing "[cia]" on the left and "impulse sysop" on the right
ml> confuses me right now... one or both should contain more or at least
ml> parts of the other... the real question is what the original packed
ml> message in the PKT looks like and were does that "[cia]" portion come
ml> from with... with or without the trailing space...
Again, that's for my arbitrary purposes. It has absolutely nothing to do with
the message packet or bundle.
