Subj : Reading dat files
To   : All
From : Andy Gorman
Date : Fri May 07 2021 08:53 am

I'm currently writing a tool to read through the users.dat file (to get security levels and flags) using Free Pascal and am running into an issue where two things ae happening.  

First I'm noticing that user names that are less than 8 characters are getting some piece of the word "unknown" appended to them.  For example, a username of "Trip" looks like "Tripown" when I pull it from the file (The BBS reads it properly).  

Second, when I loop through the file using the structure g00r00 has provided (thank you! :) ), it seems that the byte count gets thrown off by one right after the Birthday field.  Which she is 

Any help would greatly appreciated.
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