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From: jwz@teak.berkeley.edu (Jamie Zawinski)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: .MS_MsgDir
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Date: 28 Nov 89 05:59:09 GMT
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Could someone explain to me what the date field of an entry in the
.MS_MsgDir file is?  My guesses were: number of seconds since Jan 1
00; number of seconds since Jan 1 1900; number of seconds since Jan 1
1970; and all of the above expressed in tenths, thirty-seconds,
fiftieths, and sixtieths of seconds, and in various bit/byte orders.
I have no clue.

I'm talking about the field whose length is specified by AMS_DATESIZE;
I don't remember what the actual names of the struct/slot are.

I'm also confused about the format of the header-part of this file;
there's supposed to be some sort of major/minor version numbers there,
but I can't decipher them either.

I'm not doing this in C, so answers more specific than "just read a
string and cast it to..." would be best.

Thanks,
		-- Jamie