BBS: Inland Empire Archive Date: 10-05-92 (18:17) Number: 400 From: ROBERT CHURCH Refer#: NONE To: MICHAEL BULL Recvd: NO Subj: *.msg format.. Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
I would _highly_ reccomend that you pick up the full set of
FTS and FSC documents. They contain all information
critical to the Fidonet developer.
'This is info is from FTS-0001.014.
TYPE MsgHeader
FromUser AS STRING * 36
ToUser AS STRING * 36
Subject AS STRING * 72
dateTime AS STRING * 20 'date and time of message creation
'example: "01 Jan 1991" + TIME$
timesRead AS INTEGER
destNode AS INTEGER 'destination node
origNode AS INTEGER 'original node
cost AS INTEGER
origNet AS INTEGER
destNet AS INTEGER
destZone AS INTEGER 'optional
origZone AS INTEGER 'optional
destPoint AS INTEGER 'optional
origPoint AS INTEGER 'optional
replyTo AS INTEGER 'message that this one's a reply to
Attribute AS INTEGER 'attribute bits
nextReply AS INTEGER
END TYPE
'This structure will be followed by unbounded message text.
'The text is terminated by a NULL or, optionally, an EOF.
-Rob
--- Maximus 2.00
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