Subj : Problem with legacy tosser (Squish) and Sync's MSGID
To   : Fred Riccio
From : Oli
Date : Thu Dec 03 2020 05:18 pm

03 Dec 20 08:50, you wrote to Marc Lewis:

 ML>> I REALLY don't think that Squish is at fault.

 FR> I think Squish is partially at fault.  When messages tossed to *.Msg
 FR> files, it leaves trash at offset B0 and B2 where the orig & dest zone
 FR> should be.  Same with ofs B4 & B6 where the point number should be.

The documentation in the Squish Developers Kit (Version 2.00) agrees:

          Certain message systems, such as the FTSC-0001 *.MSG format,
          do not store zone  information with each message.   When the
          API  encounters such a message  and no zone  is present, the
          specified  zone will  be used  instead.   A 'def_zone'  of 0
          indicates  that nothing  is  to be  inferred about  the zone
          number of a  message, and  in that case,  the API  functions
          will return  0 as the  zone number for  any message with  an
          unknown zone.

But FTS-0001 defines zone and point fields since 1989.

 * Origin: kakistocracy (2:280/464.47)

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