[nos-bbs] Xnet and forward.bbs - finally figured out a long standing issue

[Glenn Thomas]

Great catch! - 73 de Glenn wb6w

On 11/7/2013 6:39 AM, Maiko Langelaar wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've had tons of problems trying to forward to BBS systems via any
> Xnet nodes. I think I finally know the forward.bbs better than anyone
> on the planet after having fought with it for 2 hours last night and
> another hour this morning. For example, if I want to forward with Gus'
> OBCM system via his Xnet node, I need to use something like this :
>
> NOTE : the '+' only SETS the search string, it does not read it in,
>        that is the job of the '*' or '@' directives.
>
>     -------
>     i0ojj
>     ax25 gus i0ojj-3
>     +VE4KLM
>     *10
>     .c i0ojj-8
>     +link setup
>     @10
>     i0ojj
>     -------
>
> The last line one typically sees after connecting to Xnet is (example) :
>
>    15:25:18 07.11.13 VE4KLM de I0OJJ-3 >
>
> The above script absolutely should work, but it doesn't. Why ? Because
> JNOS uses an fgets call that expects a NL at the end of each line sent
> to it, BUT the above line by Xnet is not terminated by a NL, so what
> happens is that the forward.bbs times out (doesn't matter how big you
> make the timeout value, the NL will never show up) and aborts.
>
> Solution - I am modifying the code to deal with the exception.
>
> Why am I telling you all this ? Because you've probably had similar
> issues and have no clue as to why it's happening. Anyways ...
>
> Maiko
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