Subj : FLO file question (again)
To   : All
From : Nick Andre
Date : Sat Apr 28 2018 01:29 pm

This may be more of a Binkleyterm question, but long story short, D'Bridge 
uses a unique method of storing Netmail and compressed mail, called Base36. In
order to integrate BinkD with D'Bridge, I have had to write a tremendous 
amount of code to convert Base36 to ArcMail. This is all done using the 
"mailbox" directory support in BinkD... but is a real challenge to program.

It would be nice, if in my code, I could just use BinkD/Binkley 
control files to translate the filenames of these so the remote system that
polls here via BinkD can directly download their waiting mail but the
filenames are then correctly translated by BinkD to ArcMail format (*.PKT and
*.Day-of-the-week/sequence number for compressed mail).

Lets say for example, there is Netmail waiting for 1:229/427. The Base36 Queue
entry looks like this: C:\QUEUE\N-00106D.0BV. Now if 1:229/427 polls here
via BinkD, I would like BinkD to send that as 00E501AB.PKT.

All I can tell is that there are two ways to do this, as per FSP-1034 (I think
thats the name). List it in an appropriate FLO file or make a "?ut" file.

The problem is that I do not see a way to do filename translation in the FLO 
file. In other words, ^C:\QUEUE\N-00106D.0BV would be sent as-is to the remote
system, and obviously that remote system won't toss it as it is not ArcMail, 
no tosser would understand what to do with a "*.0BV" file.

So looking at the "?ut" method, I do see that the contents will be sent as 
dynamically-named *.PKT files to the remote system, but that does not take 
into account compressed ArcMail.... so uncompressed PKT files would in theory 
work, but I'm back to square one dealing with how to send compressed 
ArcMail-named files on the fly.

Is there a control file that BinkD reads, so upon a connection, it will look 
at it, send the contents as a different name when that remote system connects?

Something like 00E501AB.FLO containing "^C:\QUEUE\N-00106D.0BV 00E501AB.PKT"

Would be VERY helpful in my quest to simplify a lot of the D'Bridge code. 

Nick

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