Subj : type 2.2 pkt header
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Sun Apr 16 2023 09:48 am

14 Apr 2023 11:48, you wrote to me:

 >> My tosser calls FSC-39 packets "Type 2+"...

 RS> What does your tosser call FSC-48 formatted packets?

"Type 2+" too. That is what it shows in the toss logs.

 >> My question was about the "defacto standard" that Maurice
 >> mentioned. It may seem that the most common is FSC-39: hpt, FMail,
 >> Squish, Mystic, etc.

 RS> My recollection was that most packets that I see are in FSC-48 format
 RS> (i.e. include the auxNet field), but I'll double-check that.

IIUC, FSC-39.4 and FSC-48 packets are identical unless they are generated by a point system.
I have PKTs from points using FMail, WinPoint, OpenXP, HotdogEd, Aftershock. All of them are FSC-39. Will try to get some from other tossers/packages.

I got the idea that FSC-39 may be more common from a message by Oli (posted some years ago):

=== Cut ===
I compiled a list of the supported packet formats for popular tossers 4 years
ago. I don't know if anything has changed since then and it might be not 100%
accurate, but it looks like FSC-0039 is the standard that most tossers use for
outbound packets and that every tosser can read.

| Name              | Read       | Write  |
|-------------------|------------|--------|
| Crashmail (Amiga) | 39, 45, 48 | 39     |
| Crashmail II      | 39, 45, 48 | 39     |
| Daydream BBS      | 39, 48     | 48     |
| FastEcho          | 39, 45, 48 | 39     |
| Fidogate          | 39         | 39     |
| FMail             | 39, 48     | 39     |
| GEcho             | 39, 45, 48 | 39     |
| Husky hpt         | 39, 48     | 39     |
| ifmail            | 39         | 39     |
| LoraBBS           | 39, 45     | 39     |
| MBSE              | 39         | 39     |
| Mystic            | 39, 48     | 39     |
| OpenXP            | 39         | 39     |
| SBBSecho          | 39, 45, 48 | 45, 48 |
| Soupgate          | 39         | 39     |
| Squish            | 39         | 39     |
| Watergate         | 39, 48     | 39     |
| WWIV BBS v5       | 39         | 39     |
=== Cut ===

Carlos

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