Subj : Re: Reading dat files
To   : Andy Gorman
From : Alexander Grotewohl
Date : Fri May 07 2021 01:20 pm

On 07 May 2021, Andy Gorman said the following...
 
 AG> First I'm noticing that user names that are less than 8 characters are
 AG> getting s ome piece of the word "unknown" appended to them.  For
 AG> example, a username of "T rip" looks like "Tripown" when I pull it from
 AG> the file (The BBS reads it properl y).  

are you correctly fetching the first byte of the username as the length?

if you read through all the users using the same set of variables you can definitely end up with unexpected data in memory.

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