handle lengths

dropman · Post by **dropman** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 10:41 am

I am using eggdrop 1.6.13 on linux system. My handle on bot has 7 chars, but one of users who joined partyline via telnet wanted to set handle of 7 chars too but on partyline he has only 6 symbols in handle. Why so ?
When i used windrop (not 32 handle length version) i saw this problem too ...

BarkerJr · Post by **BarkerJr** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 10:47 am

Could he possibly be trying to use illegal characters in his new handle? Eggdrop defaults to 9 characters max, so there shouldn't be any problems.

dropman · Post by **dropman** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 11:17 am

I used handle "astronom" but bot makes it into "astron". Maybe problem is in my telnet client (putty.exe), maybe there i need to set some options ...
Or maybe there are better telnet client than putty ?

spock · Post by **spock** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 4:52 pm

putty should work fine - atleast it does for me.
try setting protocol to RAW (just an idea) and not telnet.

maybe astronom account already exists?

dropman · Post by **dropman** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:42 am

I think there is some problem with translation/encoding. I need cyrilic encoding. When i am using dcc chat to create new user everything works and i can set hendle with 9 chars ...

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 11:02 am

Check the putty config.

It may well be that keyboard handling can be adjusted there, and preventing errornouse characters being sent.

dropman · Post by **dropman** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 12:26 pm

Maybe someone can tell me what to change in putty config that my eggdrop worked well with cyrillic encoding ?
There is some problem with char "Z" in cyryllic mode, this char do not appears on partyline and other commands, eggdrop just ignores this char ...

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 2:28 pm

May well be because this is not a value character according to the RFC.

You can only used names, as defined in the IRC RFC 1459

TimeLord · Post by **TimeLord** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 5:57 am

How to set handle lenght to more than default 9 please ?

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 6:08 am

Please see the many threads on the forum. A search for the word "handlen" should bring up a fair few.

TimeLord · Post by **TimeLord** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 9:51 am

ppslim wrote:Please see the many threads on the forum. A search for the word "handlen" should bring up a fair few.

I did what is need for increase handlen in eggdrop.h but i had one problem . It works only with +user command, not with adduser command, can u help me please ?

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 11:36 am

Can we try and keep things to one thread, rather than cross-posting.

Have you changed the value of nicklen int he config file?

TimeLord · Post by **TimeLord** » Tue Apr 08, 2003 2:25 am

ppslim wrote:Can we try and keep things to one thread, rather than cross-posting.

Have you changed the value of nicklen int he config file?

yup. everythin` works fine, i can change bot`s nick up to 32 chars, .+user up to 32 chars, but .adduser still cuts handle to 9 chars.
eggie 1.6.13

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Tue Apr 08, 2003 5:14 am

Re-compile your bot. It seems you are using modules from a previous version, where the HANDLEN is set to 9

src/mod/irc.mod/cmdsirc.c:1022

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if (strlen(hand) > HANDLEN)
    hand[HANDLEN] = 0;

When using the adduser command, this will check if the handle required (after determining if you specified one, or it should use the nickname) is over HANDLEN in size.

If so, then it simply drops the rest of the data.

If you are only getting 9 chars allowed, then the check above is only using a HANDLEN of 9.

Make sue you run "make clean" before starting the compile process.

TimeLord · Post by **TimeLord** » Tue Apr 08, 2003 5:20 am

ppslim wrote:Re-compile your bot. It seems you are using modules from a previous version, where the HANDLEN is set to 9

src/mod/irc.mod/cmdsirc.c:1022
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if (strlen(hand) > HANDLEN)
    hand[HANDLEN] = 0;
When using the adduser command, this will check if the handle required (after determining if you specified one, or it should use the nickname) is over HANDLEN in size.

If so, then it simply drops the rest of the data.

If you are only getting 9 chars allowed, then the check above is only using a HANDLEN of 9.

Make sue you run "make clean" before starting the compile process.

Thanx for help. I`ve heard that even numbers of eggie r stable and odds r testin` version. So i`ve recompiled it again from 1.6.12 and now everythin` works fine. Thanx again mate.