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   Message 13,440 of 16,010   
   Alexander Grotewohl to Andy Gorman   
   Re: Reading dat files   
   07 May 21 13:20:29   
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47   
   MSGID: 1:120/616 9deeaf9f   
   REPLY: 1:229/426.52 e6e7463d   
   TZUTC: -0400   
   On 07 May 2021, Andy Gorman said the following...   
       
    AG> First I'm noticing that user names that are less than 8 characters are   
    AG> getting s ome piece of the word "unknown" appended to them.  For   
    AG> example, a username of "T rip" looks like "Tripown" when I pull it from   
    AG> the file (The BBS reads it properl y).     
      
   are you correctly fetching the first byte of the username as the length?   
      
   if you read through all the users using the same set of variables you can   
   definitely end up with unexpected data in memory.   
      
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