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XBBSMSG.LZH is a new library of message base primitives I put together.
I ask that all developers access the message bases in a manner
consistent with these functions so file locking will work properly with
divergent processes. Not coincedentally the functions contained herein
make pretty good building blocks for programs to access the XBBS message
bases. This code can be considered public domain.
XMSG.H contains prototypes for all included functions as well as
definitions required by all functions.
PKT.H contains definitions used by makepkt.c.
For the totally uninitiated, XBBS message bases consist of two files per
area. One file is a series of fixed-length structures (see typedef
XMSG) containing header information for the message. In this structure
are pointers to the message text (start and length) contained in the
other file comprising the message area. Note that this format allows
for future addition of optional b-tree indexes or some such. The header
file is named XDATA.### and the text file is named XTEXT.### (where ###
is the hexadecimal number of the message area 0 padded to three digits).
M. Kimes
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