Subj : ANSIMRD MCI codes
To   : All
From : Digital Avatar
Date : Thu Sep 19 2019 15:20:58

So I'm having some more trouble with ansimrd.ans, but this time specifically
with the MCI codes used to display various fields therein. After slamming my
head against the desk repeatedly for forgetting to remove the spacing in the
original ansi and then wondering why everything looked so fucked up, I went
back and removed all extraneous spaces and let pipe codes do the work. Bam.
Problem solved.

However, I noticed a new problem: some of the control codes seemingly aren't
being recognized.

Specifically: The codes for To, From, Message Base, and Subject all return
valid and correct values, but the codes for Date and Time (&4 and &0) just
print out their codes, as though the entire pipe code sequence went
unrecognized. Same for the In Reply to code (&7). The codes for # of # only
half work -- the first returns just a blank space, while the latter returns
the correct value (i.e. the number of messages in that base). See Also also
returns blank, although honestly I don't think I've ever seen that field used
and wonder if it's unimplemented.

All codes in question are properly prefix'd with a |, so I'm not sure why
some codes are returning proper values and others are not. Any ideas?

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