Subj : FTN Packet File Structure?
To : Jon Watson
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Oct 14 2004 11:18 am
JW> Can someone point me to a reference somewhere on the structure
JW> of a *.pkt file? I can find bits and pieces strewn about the
JW> Internet, but I haven't found any definitive source yet.
uh... what's wrong with the FTSC documents? /they/ are the definitive documents
on FTN stuffs...
JW> While I'm on the topic - I'm looking to ditch REX for my
JW> outbound gating and want to parse the pkt files myself for
JW> insertion into my web forums database. I can easily get the
JW> To, From and Subject field out because they're null
JW> terminated, but I can't see any way to get just the message
JW> text by itself out without taking all the msgid's, times, and
JW> everything else that falls between the end of the subject and
JW> the beginning of the actual message. Anyone got any bright
JW> ideas there?
those control lines are in there for a reason... some of those control lines
are what i was speaking of in other conversations with you on this topic...
