Subj : perl files for fidonet To : Tony Summerfelt From : Russ Johnson Date : Sat May 26 2001 08:12 am > # On Wed, May 23/01 at 10:51 PM, Russ Johnson wrote to Jame Clay: >> Well, I have it tossing messages, but it overwrites each time it >> tosses. I need to write the part that addes them to an existing bunch >> of messages, without overwriting. > you could always keep a msg id hash, and do a comparison before tossing... Eventually, yes. I have want to parse the directory and find the highest number, then increment by one for the first message. Yes, I know that's easy. I just have to figure it out and put it into code... Knowing what I want to do, and how to code it, are two completely different things. >> Eventually, I want it to go into a mySQL database. > that will be the easy part :) Probably, but I don't know much about interfacing with mySQL yet either... :) Russ --- BBBS/LiI v4.01 Flag-3 * Origin: Dimension 7 - http://www.dimstar.net (1:105/8) .