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|    Andy Gorman to Alexander Grotewohl    |
|    Re: Reading dat files    |
|    07 May 21 12:14:56    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47       MSGID: 1:229/426.52 43a9e0f8       REPLY: 1:120/616 9deeaf9f       TZUTC: -0700       On 07 May 2021, Alexander Grotewohl said the following...        AG> On 07 May 2021, Andy Gorman said the following...        AG>         AG> AG> First I'm noticing that user names that are less than 8 characters ar        AG> AG> getting s ome piece of the word "unknown" appended to them. For        AG> AG> example, a username of "T rip" looks like "Tripown" when I pull it fr        AG> AG> the file (The BBS reads it properl y).         AG>         AG> are you correctly fetching the first byte of the username as the length?        AG>         AG> if you read through all the users using the same set of variables you can        AG> definitely end up with unexpected data in memory.              I am reading the file at position one and then having Pascal put the data into       the type (the user record type). I can read through the file in C# just fine,       but not with Pascal (I thought it'd be easier). I went down this road because       of the real name and handle issue of having "own" appended to the values.              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/05/03 (Windows/64)        * Origin: The Pot O'Gold - bbs.thepotogold.net:4888 (1:229/426.52)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 129/305 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 227/702 229/101 424 426 452 550 664 700 981 1016 1017 240/5832       SEEN-BY: 249/206 307 317 400 282/1038 292/854 301/1 317/3 322/757       SEEN-BY: 342/200 633/280       PATH: 229/426           |
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