Subj : .MSG to .TXT?
To   : Shurato
From : Daniel Path
Date : Sat Dec 16 2023 00:52:07

Hello Shurato,

15 Dec 23 15:26, you wrote to apam:

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

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

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

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

the data is encoded with ROT47. it's easy to implement an encoder/decoder.
https://rot47.net/


Regards,
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