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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:	OLD ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:	Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:	IOSG::PYE

Created:	Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:	Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4343
Total number of notes:	18308

2623.0. "Queries regarding PENDING.DAT" by TAV02::CHAIM (Semper ubi Sub ubi .....) Wed Apr 28 1993 09:45

ALL-IN-1 V2.4 

We have a customer who due to the restriction that checkmail doesn't work for
captive/restricted accounts is writing his own.

He has asked me to try and receive answers to the following questions regarding
PENDING.DAT.

1. When a user has many waiting mail messages, then that user will have multiple
records in the PENDING.DAT file. It appears that the TOTAL number of waiting
mail messages is written in the first record and each subsequent record
contains the number of messages for that particular record (i.e. the total
number of messages is NOT the total of the counters for all the records for the
particular user). Is this correct; i.e. barring any corruption he can assume
that the total number of waiting messages is contained in the first record for
the user.

2. Is the counter ALWAYS in the same position vis-a-vis the record (it appears
to the customer to be at position 74)? He asks because during his developement
je has looked at PENDING.DAT using TPU and the counter for certain usersd
"appears" to be at a different offset.

Thanks,

Cb.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2623.1	Confusion by TPU?	IOSG::PYE	Graham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's Apprentice	`Wed Apr 28 1993 10:28`	6
	I don't know the answer to the first question, but could he be getting confused when looking at the records with TPU if some of the characters preceding the count weren't displayable, and hence appeared to move the count to different locations? Or is TPU cleverer than that? Graham
2623.2		FORTY2::ASH	Grahame Ash @REO	`Wed Apr 28 1993 10:59`	5
	On the first question, I'm fairly certain that the code which gets the unread count assumes that the total is in the first record - you can ignore continuation record 'totals'. grahame
2623.3	That's what I thought as well...	TAV02::CHAIM	Semper ubi Sub ubi .....	`Wed Apr 28 1993 12:28`	12
	> > I don't know the answer to the first question, but could he be getting > confused when looking at the records with TPU if some of the characters > preceding the count weren't displayable, and hence appeared to move the > count to different locations? Or is TPU cleverer than that? > That is what I surmised as well. Thanks, Cb.
2623.4	Same for V3.0 ???	TAV02::CHAIM	Semper ubi Sub ubi .....	`Thu Apr 29 1993 07:52`	6
	Can anyone please tell me if PENDING.DAT has changed for V3.0 both physically (format) and/or conceptually (regarding the counter). Thanks, Cb.
2623.5	No	IOSG::SHOVE	Dave Shove -- REO2-G/M6	`Thu Apr 29 1993 16:39`	3
	That is, the relevant parts of PENDING.DAT didn't change for v3.0 Dave.