Subj : Mailer and front end...
To   : Vorlon
From : Shurato
Date : Mon Sep 30 2024 10:31 pm



 Vo> Hello Shurato!

 Vo> 30 Sep 24 14:52, you wrote to me:

 Vo> Vo>> This is what is on my linux system:

 Vo> Vo>> exec "/home/husky/hpt-copy.sh" /home/husky/inbound.sec/*.[0-9A-Za-z]
 Vo> Vo>> *.[pP][kK][tT]
 Vo> [...]

 Vo> Sh> I understand that, but I'm don't need to look for any file patterns,
 Vo> Sh> the executables in the batch file do that for me.  I would think
 Vo> binkd
 Vo> Sh> would be flexible enough to not need something that isn't being used.
 Vo> Sh> I'll just bite the bullet and add *.pkt, even though it really won't
 Vo> Sh> do anything...

 Vo> Binkd won't do anything at all if you don't give it a file mask to look
 Vo> for.

 Vo> That's the  *.[0-9A-Za-z] *.[pP][kK][tT]  part.

 Vo> The *.[0-9A-Za-z] is looking for compressd packets, while the
 Vo> *.[pP][kK][tT]  is looking for raw packets.

 Vo> When it finds that matching mask at the end of the session, it starts your
 Vo> script. Nothing more nothing less.

Ok,  I added the *.[mwtfs][oehrau][0-9a-zA-Z] to the end.  We'll see if it
runs.   I didn't quite understand why that file name was needed, now I do!


 Vo> It is then upto your script to do any fancy things.



 Vo> Vorlon


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