Subj : Compression question
To   : Bo Simonsen
From : Bob Jones
Date : Fri Jul 25 2003 11:47 am

 RJT> This is probably a better approach,  as *.MSG isn't universal (I 
 RJT> don't have any areas set up that way here),  but *.PKT is...

 BS> You got the point :-) But in many times it's there is 
 BS> afair only Opus and FTS-001 *.MSG's?

Bo, the original Fido software (the BBS side of the original Fidonet package) 
used *.msg format for the messages.  *.MSG was the original format for the 
message base.  *.msg were packed into the netmail .PKT files for the original 
fidonet mail transfers.....  Fido, Opus, Maximus, and I'm sure almost any other 
BBS software running on fidonet at the time used *.MSG format.  Yes, there were 
exceptions.....  

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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