> Alexey, > > WD>> Please be aware that this "discussion" is nothing more than a single > WD>> message by a single person... > > AV> ... with nobody been able to disprove that :-) > > Nothing needed to be disproven as the spec is pretty straightforward.
I disagree. I think it's ambiguous and incomplete, if not misleading.
> It's just that native english speakers needed to be made aware.
Is FTS-1 available in another language, where it's possibly more complete? I'm not clear what "english speaking" has to do with it.
Here's what FTS-1 has to say about the message subject in Stored Messages in section B1: +-----------------------+-----------------------+ 72 48 | | ~ subject ~ | 72 bytes | +-----------------------+-----------------------+ ... subject(72) (* see FileList below *)
No mention that a null-terminator is required. No mention that the actual/usable number of characters in a message subject is in fact 71 characters (not 72).
Now, section C1 (Packed Message definition) is little better:
But again, it should be made clear that the "72 bytes" here includes the required null terminator, so a message subject is in fact limited to a maxmimum length of 71 characters. --- SBBSecho 3.09-Linux * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)
