Subj : pkt2txt  perl script
To   : Jame Clay
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Mon Feb 18 2002 10:34 pm

Hey Jame!

Feb 18 17:36 02, Jame Clay wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 >     Is it far enough along to be discussable?<sp?><g>

I think so.  I started out with a suggestion from the LINUX echo to use 
"strings" to read raw packets and after trying this a couple of times I noticed 
that all the information any program needs to know was contained in the 
resulting text, with the exception of the "To" field in the case of the sender 
writing to "All" using a particular editor.  I haven't noticed this anomaly 
other then there.  So my plan was/is to filter packets through "strings" and 
then dump the appropriate information to a header containing only the 
information required, such as node numbers as node numbers rather the fields of 
integers that you have to string together to form a full address, and other 
such things.  This way messages are trimmed down to the barebones minimum, or 
at least as close to barebones as I can currently get it.  As far as the format 
of the header that is where I left it when I last worked on it and am now going 
to concentrate on that.  I was thinking a gzipped text file with a delimeter to 
mark beginnings and ends but maybe things like the PATH could be employed 
instead seeing as the PATH is always at the end of a message.

 >    Well, you have plenty of time;   at least as long as people are 
 > still using
 > fidonet...<g>

Define "use" please.  :-)

Poking along,
Maurice

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