Subj : Re: First-time scan point
To   : DIGITAL MAN
From : Mauro Veiga
Date : Sun Aug 14 2016 11:06 am

 -=> Quoting Digital Man to Mauro Veiga at 08-13-16  16:00 <=-

 DM> Re: Re: First-time scan point
 DM> By: Mauro Veiga to DIGITAL MAN on Sat Aug 13 2016 06:28 pm
 
 >  -=> Quoting Digital Man to Nightfox at 08-06-16  12:19 <=-
 >
 >      Hello, Rob!
 >
 >  DM> 1. If you have SCFG->System->New User Values->Days of New Messages set
 >  DM> to 0. 2. And a new user logs on for the first time
 >
 >  DM> I think the default for "Days of New Messages" is not 0. Did you
 >  DM> change it? 0 is valid, but it means that a new user would see *no* new
 >  DM> messages when they first scan for new messages upon logging as as
 >  DM> "new". I just want to make sure you knew how that worked.
 >
 >  >I have a message reader
 >  > mod I wrote in JavaScript, and it has had trouble accessing messages for
 >  > new users, seemingly due to that value of scan_ptr.  I found that I can
 >  > check for that value and work around it, but I still wanted to let you
 >  > know in case that value is not by design.
 >
 >  DM> Yes, it's by design. It was added in Nov-2015 with this commit:
 >  DM> http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/src/sbbs3/userdat.c?r1=1.160
 >  DM> &r2=1.16 1
 >
 >  DM> ~0 (of a 32-bit integer) is short-hand for 0xffffffff.
 >
 >      I'm using Sync 3.16c and not have Days of News Messages field
 >      on New User Values. How can i upgrade this?

 DM> You can upgrade to the daily development builds (sbbs_dev.zip for
 DM> Windows). 
 DM> digital man

     Thanks, Rob! Works fine here.  :-)


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