[Xastir] Xastir Message ID Question

[John Gorkos]

Xastir Devs-

  Can you please help me out with Xastir messaging?

I'm doing some new work on AVRS, and using xastir as my message source for 
testing.  The simplest function AVRS will do is tell you the closest echolink 
and IRLP nodes, when queried with a "?".  Message traffic looks like this:
AB0OO>APX194,TCPIP*,qAC,FOURTH::AVRS     :?{0h}0

A few things to note here:
1) This is a fresh compiled-this-morning Xastir 2.0.0 (not APX194, but I would 
think APX200)
2) I'm completely lost with what you guys are doing with the message number.  
Going back to the spec, the message format is:
1 byte for ":" (message data type indicator)
9 bytes for Addressee
1 byte for ":" (message separator, I suppose)
0-67 bytes for the message text
1 byte for "{" (end of message indicator)
1-5 bytes for "message number"

So....
from xastir, is the message number "0h}0", or is it "0h" or is it "0"?  When I 
ACK this message, what is Xastir looking for?  According to the spec, I should 
ACK with "0h}0"

Help...  All raw packets are available on APRS.FI (conversants are AB0OO and 
AVRS)

John Gorkos
AB0OO