Board:   [WWIVnet] WWIV Development
Subject: Re: Bug Report - Already posted on GIT.
From:    Xenos #1 @60
To:      Rushfan #1 @513
Date:    Mon Sep 12, 2022 22:38

On Monday, September 12, 2022 at 11:56, Rushfan wrote:

R>RE: Re: Bug Report - Already posted on GIT.
R>BY: Jimmy Mac #1 @707
R>
R>
R>JM> Hopefully, when Rushfan isn't so swamped, and has some time it can
R>JM> remedied so systems coming online with long names won't impact the
R>JM> ability to get packets.
R>
R>Looks like the 4.3 and earlier network data has a 39 char limit for bbs name
R>so it likely crashed when trying to insert it into that name.  Best we could
R>do would be to truncate the bbsname for older network systems.  I think this
R>has been a limitation forever.
R>
R>rushfan
R>

Hi Rushfan, I posted a suggested fix on the issue thread on github. Not sure if
it works or if it's off-by-one.


xenos

p.s. long COVID sucks. I got it last month and there are a lot of damned
lingering symptoms as well as some that just pop up for no reason whatsoever.
We'll get through this.

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