From 25e69ee563dd92a3e8998529310f7729e3843f6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Bailey <jmbailey@nps.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 15:29:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] VariableDatum datum length is bits, not bytes

---
 examples/src/OpenDis7Examples/AllPduSender.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/examples/src/OpenDis7Examples/AllPduSender.java b/examples/src/OpenDis7Examples/AllPduSender.java
index bbccafb627..900d7cb9a0 100755
--- a/examples/src/OpenDis7Examples/AllPduSender.java
+++ b/examples/src/OpenDis7Examples/AllPduSender.java
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ public class AllPduSender
                             {
                                 VariableDatum newVariableDatum = new VariableDatum();
                                 newVariableDatum.setVariableDatumValue (comment.getBytes());        // conversion
-                                newVariableDatum.setVariableDatumLength(comment.getBytes().length); // housekeeping
+                                newVariableDatum.setVariableDatumLength(comment.getBytes().length  * 8); // bits, not bytes, see spec and javadoc
                                 payloadList.add(newVariableDatum);
                                 System.out.println("   \"" + comment + "\"");
                             }
-- 
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