Subj : Perl::JAM (was: txt2pkt.pl)
To   : Johan Billing
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Thu Feb 17 2005 06:51 am

Hey Johan!

Feb 16 21:53 05, Johan Billing wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JB> interested, you can find it at this URL:

 JB> http://www.df.lth.se/~billing/jamlib.html (at the bottom of the page)

Okay I got it!!!  Also took the liberty of downloading the specs and the 
archived JAM libs.  Where are the tar.gz versions?  ;-)

I haven't looked at any of these yet and it might be a couple of days before 
that happens, but I already know that some conversion is going to happen to at 
least make the archives more Linux friendly.  I am also betting the 
documentation will need to be filtered to rid them of DOS-think.  The bonus to 
that is that it reduces file sizes without any compression and furthermore if 
later gzipped even greater savings are achieved.  Too bad Fido never considered 
things like this given that ridding DOS-think from messages reduces them by 
more or less 60% without compression.  That might make my additional two bytes 
on the MSGID a more attractive sell.  Heh, heh.

I'd like to see if something like the above can be achieved with the JAM format 
or if there might have to be a major overhaul to eliminate DOS-think from it.  
What do you think?  Worth looking into?

Life is good,
Maurice

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