Subj : playing with txt2pkt.pl
To   : Jame Clay
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Feb 22 2005 03:37 pm

Hey Jame!

From playing with some ideas about your script, I am trying an idea of an 
offline type thing that creates the individual msg format on the fly and then 
at the end of the session taking all the resulting msg's and creating a pkt 
from that.  The beauty of this ideology is that I can create a unique MSGID for 
each message as I type them and then I don't have to be concerned about the 
server being able to pack tons of messages in less then a second.  The downside 
is that all machines on the network would either have to do it this way, which 
would mean they would all have to have this code, or get a MSGID from the 
server each time they created or replied to a msg.  But just to get this thing 
off the ground and see where it goes I'll do it locally seeing as I already 
have everything I need and would have all this regardless of your script.  I 
still think it can be done so that not everyone on the net requires any 
additional programs to do Fido but I haven't gotten that far along yet.  I just 
want to get over the unique MSGID hump for now.  :-)

With the above in mind I find this to be a reasonable call as far as FTN msg 
and pkt header(s) are concerned;

@DateTime = split /,/, strftime "%Y,%m,%d,%H,%M,%S,%d %b %y  %X", gmtime;

That yeilds everything I can think of as far as needed variables in a useable 
format are concerned, although some might wish to use localtime instead of 
gmtime.  Shouldn't matter though as everything Fido-ie is there ... I think.  I 
can derive a MSGID from some of the above as well as produce a proper msg and 
pkt header.  The usual DateTime Fido string is the last element of the array 
which is kind of cool and didn't cause any noticable strain on cpu time to 
produce.  One stop shopping!

Have I missed anything that you can see?

Life is good,
Maurice

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