Subj : MsgBase get_all_msg_headers issue
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Mar 15 2019 03:11 pm

  Re: MsgBase get_all_msg_headers issue
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Fri Mar 15 2019 01:07 pm

 >   Re: MsgBase get_all_msg_headers issue
 >   By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Fri Mar 15 2019 12:13 am
 >
 >  >> !JavaScript  ../xtrn/DigDist/MsgReader/DDMsgReader.js line 1392:
 >  >> Error: index re
 >  >> ad (1062) failed
 >
 >  >> I wasn't seeing that before.  I've overwritten my binaries now, so I'm
 >  >> not sure offhand which binaries I had where I wasn't seeing that
 >  >> error.
 >
 >  >> Where it's failing in my script, I'm not calling that function twice,
 >  >> it's right after opening the messagebase.
 >
 >  DM> That's weird. Calling get_msg_headers() right after opening the
 >  DM> messagebase did not cause any error for me, nor should it have (the
 >  DM> file pointer would be at the beginning the file by default). I wrote a
 >  DM> simple little script to executing JSexec to 1. reproduce the error and
 >  DM> 2. confirm the fix.
 >
 > It seems that many of my messagebases had corruption in them (particularly,
 > most of them were FidoNet areas).  I ran fixsmb on those and it seems to be
 > resolved.

I'll see if I can make it more tolerant of corrupted message bases.

 > Another sub-board where it's having that error though is another one where
 > the messagebase files don't exist (possibly because nobody has posted in
 > there yet?).

It shouldn't do that. What's the exact error message in that case?

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