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Formatting Conventions The following special conventions for formatting character-based data must be adhered to. User Names These include sender/creator names and names of the recipients of messages. Names must be formatted in a block of 108 bytes as shown below. Names will always be output by the Intrinsics in this way. Byte Position Contents 1-36 Family name (space filled to 36 bytes) 37-72 First forename if relevant (space filled to 36 bytes) 73-108 Second forename if relevant (space filled to 36 bytes) This means the format "SMITH, John" will not be accepted, it must be in the format: Byte Byte 1 37 SMITH John
NOTE A first forename cannot appear without a family name, and a second forename cannot appear without the other two. The length of each name element must not exceed 36 characters and the total combined length of the name cannot exceed 36 characters including separators, as in HP Desk. Separators between the different parts of the username are not necessary in this context. However, remember that at other times, separators will be inserted between the family name, first forename and second forename. This means that if only one name element is provided, it cannot be more than 36 characters long, if two name elements are provided, they cannot be more than a combined length of 35 characters to allow for a separator, and if three name elements are provided they cannot be more than a combined length of 34 characters to allow for two separators.
Mailnodes These are 8 bytes long, with the location field in the first 6 bytes and the sublocation field in the remaining 2. If the location field is less than 6 bytes long, it should be space filled to 6 bytes. If the sublocation is only 1 byte long, or the address is hierarchic, the sublocation field should be space filled. For example: HP160001 MKTG S The format MKTG/S will not be accepted. Explicit Foreign Address and Foreign Address Alias Fields These are taken without modification, except that leading and trailing spaces are ignored. Carriage Return characters in the address string are interpreted as representing a logical line-break. They are used in formatted, postal style addresses. Subject and Diary Label fields These are taken without modification and should be space filled to 60 and 30 bytes respectively. Content File Names These are taken without modification except that leading spaces are ignored. The remainder of the file name fields should be space filled as necessary. They are in standard MPE filename format.