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     Re: sbbsecho and bad packets   
     By: deon to Digital Man on Tue Oct 07 2025 01:36 pm   
      
    >   Re: sbbsecho and bad packets   
    >   By: Digital Man to deon on Mon Oct 06 2025 05:53 pm   
    >   
    >  >  > I didnt think DateTime was a null terminated string? Its 20 Bytes in   
    >  >  > the   
    > Howdy,   
    >   
    >  >  > packed message header (FTS-0001.16 C.1).   
    >   
    >  >  > "A packed  message has a number of fixed  length   
    >  >  >       fields followed by four null terminated strings."   
    >   
    >  >  > (those being: to/from/subject and text are null terminated).   
    >   
    >  >  > Or have a missed something?   
    >   
    >  > DateTime is defined as follows in FTS-1:   
    >   
    >  > DateTime   = (* a character string 20 characters long *)   
    >  >                                      (* 01 Jan 86  02:34:56 *)   
    >  >                    DayOfMonth " " Month " " Year " "   
    >  >                    " " HH ":" MM ":" SS   
    >  >                    Null   
    >   
    >  > The "Null" is explicit there. These FidoNet specs are pretty terrible,   
    >  > but FTS-1 is one of the better ones. :-)   
    >   
    > I think we quoted the same document. Except you quoted the "a Stored   
    > Message" ("as it is the layer that the user's application sees as opposed to   
    > what FidoNet sees".) section, and I quoted the "Packed Message" ("As this is   
    > a data structure which is actually transferred, its definition is critical   
    > to FidoNet") section.   
      
   Indeed, yes, but the DateTime field definition for the packed message is   
   "inherited" from the Stored Message definition - it's not redefined.   
      
    > Anyway, does that mean SBBSecho will only accept packets if the datatime   
    > field is encoded as a null terminated string?   
      
   Correct. It's been that way for a very long time, not new behavior.   
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