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   Message 13,441 of 16,010   
   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   
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   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.   
      
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