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     Re: sbbsecho and bad packets   
     By: deon to Digital Man on Mon Oct 06 2025 01:07 pm   
      
    >   Re: sbbsecho and bad packets   
    >   By: Digital Man to deon on Sun Oct 05 2025 06:09 pm   
    >   
    >  > Looks to me like the DateTime is missing the NUL terminator:   
    >  > 00000040  79 02 79 02 00 00 00 00  30 33 20 4f 63 74 20 32  |y.y.....03   
    >  > Oct 2| 00000050  35 20 20 30 37 3a 31 37  3a 34 37 20 41 6c 6c 00  |5   
    >  > 07:17:47 All.|   
    >   
    >  >  > Why is SBBSecho marking them bad?   
    >   
    >  > The sbbsecho.log should say the reason why, but it's probably the same   
    >  > reason.   
    >   
    > I didnt think DateTime was a null terminated string? Its 20 Bytes in the   
    > 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?   
      
   FWIW, Tom Jenning's Fido software (specifically, unpmsg() from unpacket.c)   
   would've barfed on any message without a NUL-terminated date/time as well.   
   https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/FidoNet/index.html   
      
   It would would even trigger a buffer overflow (off-by-one) bug in his code!   
   Just something I came across that was probably related to this discussion.   
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