Subj : .MSG to .TXT?
To   : apam
From : Shurato
Date : Fri Dec 15 2023 15:26:00

 ap> > I'm not sure what I need to do, but I'd like for .msg files to be
 ap> processed
 ap> > with carriage returns, and they have something else (I don't know what)
 ap> I'd
 ap> > guess.  I need them to look like normal text files with a command line
 ap> if
 ap> > possible.

 ap> I think .msg has carriage returns, just not linefeeds, so windows would
 ap> put it  all on one line in notepad.

 ap> You'd want to replace '\r' with '\r\n' (or byte 0x0D with 0x0D 0x0A) I
 ap> don't  know of a program that does this, but it would be fairly
 ap> easy to write one.

I tried that with xchange, and couldn't find a carriage return in the file.
Best would be a utility to convert fidonet message files into a readable text
file.  It looks like there's more binary data in there than I know what to do
with.  My intent is to parse out the IBBS1LINE messages and put them in a
file to display to users (last 10 or so).  I'm pretty sure I can handle the
script, but I don't have the slightest clue how to convert data.

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