Subj : Bug related to Bullseye bulletin board?
To   : Karloch
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Oct 31 2008 12:18 pm

  Re: Bug related to Bullseye bulletin board?
  By: Karloch to All on Sun Oct 26 2008 12:20 pm

 > I'm not sure if this is the right place to post about it, as I think that
 > Javascript code is correct, maybe it is a bug in the Javascript
 > interpreter.
 >
 > The problem is that since upgraded to lastest build Synchronet (3.15 I
 > think). Bullseye doesn't seem to be working rightly. Whatevet I select a
 > bulletin to display it says "Invalid bulletin number". I switched the
 > Bullseye program from the Baja one to the Javascript version, as I
 > understand js better and could take a look to the code (the problem was
 > still there, no matter the switch).
 >
 > It looks like the problem is related to the File.position property, at
 > lines 41 and 42:
 >
 > mode=file.readln();
 > filepos=file.position;
 >
 > The former reads the first line of bullseye.cfg correctly, retrieving the
 > number stored there, but them for some strange reason, the latter line
 > stores in filepos the number -4. Being file.position the offset in bytes of
 > the file and as the first line is just a character (4 bytes), it doesn't
 > make much sense to be "-4", it should be "4". From that point the program
 > won't work correctly as it will never enter in the loop:
 >
 > file.position=filepos; // file.position=-4
 > i=0;
 > while((str=file.readln())!=null) {
 >
 > If I change the first line with this one:
 >
 > file.position=4;
 >
 > The Bullseye starts working again as it should. So I think that it could be
 > something wrong in the file seeking functions.
 >
 > I don't know if this is a bug, but it's actually so weird.

It sounds like a bug, but I haven't been able to reproduce it here. What are
the contents of your bullseye.cfg file?

If the first line is a single digit (e.g. 0), that should normally be 3
characters (3<CR><LF>), not 4. Maybe you could e-mail me your bullseye.cfg file
as an attachment and I'll see if I can reproduce it here.

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