Subj : "programming in perl" To : Jasen Betts From : Jame Clay Date : Sun Sep 14 2003 12:08 pm Jasen, > That aside I'm starting to see how someone could consider writing FIDO > applications in perl, pack and unpack look real handy... Indeed they are... I've used it for some programs toss fidonet packets, which I adapted from what someone else put together. Don't have the toss to packets working yet, but toss from them to a message does work; also have several other packet readers ( pkt2txt, pkt2html, pkt2xml) that I and/or Russ have been working on... Copies of them were hatched out in the perlscr file echo; & of course they're available here via freq, ftp, or http... Jame --- BBBS/LiI v4.01 Flag-5 * Origin: http://bbs.rocasa.org (1:120/544) .