|01 ÜÜÛ²ßßÝßßß  °ß    °|CR²ß   quoting |09mark lewis |01on |0903/03/16 |07   
       
    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.   
      
   Thanks for your time in studying this problem.   
      
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