Subj : Current message pointer corrupted for user?
To   : Khelair
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jun 01 2015 02:28 am

  Re: Current message pointer corrupted for user?
  By: Khelair to All on Sun May 31 2015 04:26 pm

 >   So I've run into an interesting problem lately.  Something that I've done
 > has completely hosed the msg_area.scan_ptr, potentially in multiple message
 > areas. I'm not sure what's caused it but I'm pretty sure that I've got rid
 > of it. 'Course either way I still need to be able to reset it to a 'sane'
 > value so that I can resume testing this software with this login, or be able
 > to recover a different login should I start using it.
 >   Here's a little dump of the debug information that I've got.  Please note
 > that sBoard is a msg_area object and mBase is a MsgBase object.
 >
 > -=-=-=-=-=-
 >
 > Babble> Using node #: 1
 > Read backward
 > Entered scanSub(); forward = false  user.cursub: topegrpbabble
 > sBoard.code: topegrpbabble
 > Opened: topegrpbabble allegedly . . .
 > mBase.error:
 > sBoard.scan_ptr = 2060051968
 > mBase.first_msg = 1
 > mBase.total_msgs = 13
 > mBase.last_msg = 13
 > Inc: -1 based on forward
 > In main scanSub() loop  tmpPtr: 2060051969 total_msgs: 13 is_open: yes
 > DEBUG: Next Msg
 > End of scanSub() main loop
 > tmpPtr: 2060051968      inc: -1
 > rcChoice() called w/base: topegrpbabble ndx: 2060051968
 > Using node #: 1
 > Reopened topegrpbabble to check for updates
 >
 > [Babble> msg #2060051969 (-2060051955 remaining)] Read cmd ->
 >
 > -=-=-=-=-=-
 >   If anybody has any ideas on how to reset that number easily (other than in
 > code, I'm hoping) to something sane (ie in this case 1-13), I would very
 > much appreciate it.

That message number *could* be valid. Each message imported into the message 
base or posted gets a unique number. So just because you currently have 13 
messages does not mean their message numbers (for internal use) would be 1 
through 13.

 > I think at one point I just didn't have the edge case
 > defined well enough and it ran off to the negative overflow area of a long
 > when I was doing a backwards message scan.
 >   Any ideas appreciated.  Thanks for your time.

You can use the &P command from the main menu of the default command shell to 
set/reset your msg scan pointers.

                                            digital man

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