Subj : Reading files directly
To   : Charles Blackburn
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Sep 17 2022 16:39:04

  Re: Reading files directly
  By: Charles Blackburn to All on Sat Sep 17 2022 04:17 pm

 > All
 >
 > I'm looking at writing some programsand i figured i would start by looking
 > at the message base as that's the easiest thing to do right now... read/list
 > etc.
 >
 > i found the structures definition here (http://synchro.net/docs/smb.html)
 > but for the life of me the C structs that are listed in there are not valid
 > that I can tell as for example, you can't have a flexible array that's not
 > at the end of the struct. They would need a length definition.

They're valid structs since empty arrays are pointers in C. If you want to see the actual C structure definitions used in SMBLIB, see smbdefs.h.

 > So unless i'm missing something, is there a definitive  SDK or header file i
 > can use that has the correct structures in them?

Yes, SMBLIB.

 > i'm not a C programmer, although i do know the basics, but i would also
 > rather code in python, but there's no echo for that :P

You'd save a lot of trouble by using the Synchronet JavaScript MsgBase class instead. It's *much* easier for reading/manipulating message bases than what is necessary in C or C++.

 > i found SMBLIB in the repo, but is there any example programs that show how
 > to use it ?

Sure, smbutil.c is probably the simplest example.
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