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   Andy Gorman to All   
   Reading dat files   
   07 May 21 08:53:23   
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47   
   MSGID: 1:229/426.52 e6e7463d   
   TZUTC: -0700   
   I'm currently writing a tool to read through the users.dat file (to get   
   security levels and flags) using Free Pascal and am running into an issue   
   where two things ae happening.     
      
   First I'm noticing that user names that are less than 8 characters are getting   
   some piece of the word "unknown" appended to them.  For example, a username of   
   "Trip" looks like "Tripown" when I pull it from the file (The BBS reads it   
   properly).     
      
   Second, when I loop through the file using the structure g00r00 has provided   
   (thank you! :) ), it seems that the byte count gets thrown off by one right   
   after the Birthday field.  Which she is    
      
   Any help would greatly appreciated.   
      
   --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/05/03 (Windows/64)   
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