Re: Strange nfilter/NewsProxy Behavior

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 01:00:08 +0000 (UTC), "Bill" wrote:

Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

nfilter/NewsProxy will crash every time while trying to retrieve the
body of this message...

Subject: Converting Excel 2007 Nested "If" Statement to Excel 2003:
Overcom

Is there something there that nfilter/NewsProxy "sees" as code??

Weird.

It's not weird, it's just bug that's been fixed. While you might
not expect the code to touch the message body, it turns out that
it does. In the case of that particular Excel spreadsheet equation,
the offending line was longer than 2048 characters (which has to
include the carriage return-linefeed and the terminating null.)
Simply reducing the number of characters copied between buffers
by one fixes the problem. Note however that the truncation is
"silent" and will show up only in the debug.log file, assuming you
have debugging enabled (which I do NOT recommend except for
troubleshooting, it really slows things down and results in a huge
log file very quickly.)

The code change is noted in the source code, per the GPL.

You can get the fixed version from rapidshare or alt.binaries.freeware
at the URL or Message-IDs below.

Readme (0/1) Message-ID: <2amqn7.oqt.17.1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
binary (1/1) Message-ID: <2amqn8.oqt.17.2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
and/or
binary http://rapidshare.com/files/160733676/nps-125.zip.html

The binary is 431 kB and contains the complete, ready to compile
source code package.

Before anyone brings up the dire warnings my fan club has issued
about the previous builds, please note that the source code _is_
included, refuting the major claim made against it.

Dustin Cook in alt.comp.virus and/or any of the antivirus/antimalware
vendors will probably look at the *.exe and the code if asked.

Please use
alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent.modified
for any further discussion of NewsProxy with me. I'd be glad to
answer any questions about it.

While i would like to get to up to date source, none of your links
worked. My coward ISP has dropped alt.binaries.* and similar.
Please place current source on sourceforge.

.

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