Squish 2 of 2

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 05-25-92 (19:43)             Number: 85
From: ZACK JONES                   Refer#: NONE
  To: STEVE MATHIESON               Recvd: NO  
Subj: Squish 2 of 2                  Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
(216)   Tue 7 Apr 92 20:57
By: Francois Roy
To: Harvey Parisien
Re: Squish bases, 2 of 2
St:

---- And the last structure, also needed to read a message: TYPE SQMESSAGE ' The message Header, as it appears in a Squish area ATTRIB AS LONG FROM AS STRING * 36 DEST AS STRING * 36 SUBJ AS STRING * 72 ORIGZONE AS INTEGER ORIGNET AS INTEGER ORIGNODE AS INTEGER ORIGPOINT AS INTEGER DESTZONE AS INTEGER DESTNET AS INTEGER DESTNODE AS INTEGER DESTPOINT AS INTEGER BINDATES AS STRING * 8 UTCOFST AS INTEGER REPLYTO AS LONG REPLIES AS STRING * 40 DATEMSG AS STRING * 20 END TYPE Ok, now for the explanations: the two main files are <name>.SQD and <name>.SQI. The first structure is for the .SQI file (you can open that one as RANDOM with a length of 12); the others are for the .SQD file (which you open as BINARY). There is a one-to-one correspondence between records in .SQI and the (non- deleted) messages. You want message #25: just read the 25th record from the .SQI file into the SQIDX-dimensioned variable. Then, use the offset SQI.OFFST + 1 to read the SQHDR-dimensioned variable (the SQI offsets start at 0 but QB treats the first byte in a BINARY file as byte 1). This SQHDR is 28-bytes long, and it is immediately followed by the 230 bytes of the SQMSG-defined variable (the message header), and SQD.MSGLEN bytes of message text. The SQBASE structure isn't needed to read messages but contains info about the Squish base itself. You read it from byte 1 of the .SQD file if you are interested in that info. That is about as far as I have progressed: I don't know what all the fields do, but there is enough there to read messages, which is all my application was designed for. Hope this helps. Take Care, Zack Jones --- * Origin: Zack's Shack - San Antonio TX (1:387/905.1)
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