Subj : other bits
To   : all
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Thu Jul 10 2003 09:01 pm

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Things seem to be progressing nicely with the newer multi-platform ports of Max 
and Squish,  and I hear about nodelist compilers and other stuff that I'd need 
here...

There are a few other bits though,  that I'd *really* like to have,  before I 
go ahead and port the whole system over to linux:

DLC -- this is what puts those download counts into the files.bbs files.  It 
can initialize any given file directory,  though I usually stick those brackets 
in there by hand when I create the files.bbs,  and updates them by reading the 
logs of both Max and Bink.  I would imagine that it would be possible to do 
something of this sort with some creative scripting,  maybe?

PolyXArc and PktSort -- The former is a sort of a universal unpacker,  takes 
whatever archives are there and unpackes them to give you *.PKT files.  I 
*think* that source for this was available,  might even have it,  I'd have to 
look.  The latter is another story.  There were a couple of programs out there 
to do this,  I have 'em both in my files section,  but like PktSort better.  
The big problem is that it's an orphan.  Unregisterable.  What it does is take 
a bunch of *.PKT files,  sorts them according to what echos they're in,  and 
outputs one *big* *.PKT file as output.  There are other things in there,  such 
as being able to split messages that are too big,  and similar stuff that I 
don't care much about,  but this *really* speeds up the tossing process for me. 
 If I had to move to linux and not have this,  I think I'd miss it a lot...

Any of you guys have ideas as to how something of this sort could be 
implemented?

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