BBS: Inland Empire Archive Date: 05-25-92 (22:37) Number: 178 From: FRANCOIS ROY Refer#: NONE To: STEVE MATHIESON Recvd: NO Subj: Squish Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
>Has anyone in here got the Squish API stuff for QB4.5?
Ok - message #1: here are the structures. The next
message will tell you what sense I have been able to make
of them so far.
TYPE SQIDX ' .SQI file: one of these per message (12 bytes)
OFFST AS LONG
UMSGID AS LONG
HASH AS LONG
END TYPE
TYPE SQBASE ' .SQD database header (256 bytes): 1 per .SQD file
SLEN AS INTEGER
RSVD1 AS INTEGER
NUMMSG AS LONG ' No of msgs in area
HIMSG AS LONG ' Highest msg number (same as NUMMSG)
SKIPMSG AS LONG ' # of msgs to protect from autoKill
HIWATER AS LONG ' Highwatermark
UID AS LONG ' # of next UMSGID to use
BASEID AS STRING * 80' Name (incl path) of this message base
FBEGIN AS LONG ' Offset to 1st frame
FLAST AS LONG ' Offset to last frame
FFBEGIN AS LONG ' Offset to 1st free frame
FFLAST AS LONG ' Offset to last free frame
FEND AS LONG ' Offset to end of file
MAXMSGS AS LONG ' # of msgs to keep
MAXDAYS AS INTEGER ' # of days to keep msgs for
SZSQHDR AS INTEGER ' Size of SQHDR (32 bytes)
END TYPE
TYPE SQHDR
ID AS LONG
NEXTF AS LONG
PREVF AS LONG
FLEN AS LONG
MSGLEN AS LONG
CLEN AS LONG
FTYP AS INTEGER
RSVD AS INTEGER
END TYPE
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
--- msgedsq 2.1
* Origin: R&D BBS 'The VAX Heaven' {819/772-2952} 9600 HST/V32 (1:163/506)

Books at Amazon:
Back to BASIC: The History, Corruption, and Future of the Language
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (including Tiny BASIC)
Go to: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Scientists and Iconoclasts who were the Hero Programmers of the Software Revolution
The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World
Moths in the Machine: The Power and Perils of Programming
Mastering Visual Basic .NET