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BeeBS


The BBS designed for the BBC Micro


                           Updates


Indexed Messages


19 August 2024 Updates

Indexed Messages Screenshot


It has been a long time coming, but after a LOT of rejigging bits of the
original OBBS code BeeBS now has an indexed message reader. You can
display an index of 5 messages at a time using either N or P to navigate
through, or R followed by the message number to read an individual
message. If you exit out of the message reader but return during the same
session it will continue from the last message you read (rather than the
newest message). The indexed message reader displays in plain ASCII text
too.

Index Messages ASCII


The new code relies on using the original OBBS message file pointers
(below) to jump around the message file to gather the field data (Name,
Subject, To, From and Msg Number) which is then displayed (to save on
memory the data is not stored in an array).

Message Pointer Code


When reading messages from a specific board (rather than all messages)
BeeBS checks to see if the message is on the current board, if so it will
display the message details. If not 1 is either added or subtracted from
the message number until the messages board and the current board match.

Individual Board Index


Unfortunately this can result in long load times for board that have
infrequent posts, but as OBBS doesnb t store an index of which message is
on which board there is no way to quickly filter this information without
reading each message header.

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