Subj : Re: First-time scan point
To   : DIGITAL MAN
From : Mauro Veiga
Date : Sat Aug 13 2016 06:28 pm

 -=> Quoting Digital Man to Nightfox at 08-06-16  12:19 <=-

     Hello, Rob!

 DM> 1. If you have SCFG->System->New User Values->Days of New Messages set
 DM> to 0. 2. And a new user logs on for the first time

 DM> I think the default for "Days of New Messages" is not 0. Did you
 DM> change it? 0 is valid, but it means that a new user would see *no* new
 DM> messages when they first scan for new messages upon logging as as
 DM> "new". I just want to make sure you knew how that worked.
 
 >I have a message reader
 > mod I wrote in JavaScript, and it has had trouble accessing messages for new
 > users, seemingly due to that value of scan_ptr.  I found that I can check
 > for that value and work around it, but I still wanted to let you know in
 > case that value is not by design.

 DM> Yes, it's by design. It was added in Nov-2015 with this commit:
 DM> http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/src/sbbs3/userdat.c?r1=1.160
 DM> &r2=1.16 1

 DM> ~0 (of a 32-bit integer) is short-hand for 0xffffffff.

     I'm using Sync 3.16c and not have Days of News Messages field
     on New User Values. How can i upgrade this?

     TIA

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