BL> How do I identify actual mail? The mad "#! cunbatch" line is
 BL> not on all mail... 

 PE> I think it should be, on all news.

 JT> Newsgroups (equiv to fido echos) are compressed. Mail (equiv to
 JT> fido netmail) is never compressed. This seems to be the norm on
 JT> unix systems. The idea being, you have some type of script on
 JT> your unix machine that looks for this cunbatch header thingy,
 JT> which also identifies the *type* of compression, and then you
 JT> use "batch" files to use whatever decompression program to
 JT> extract the files.

  Who cares diddley squat about Unix?

  The logic I use is to open all files with a .D extension, read the
header for "unbatch,"  if found step back one and read that letter to
decide what unzipper to use to copy to the work directory, else just
move the file to the work directory.

  My complaint is that the unix-wankers make this necessary. There is
no guarantee that the files will use the same compressor, so they have
ot be done one at a time instead of as a batch with just one archive
and one archiver. Dickheads!

 JT> In the dos world I imagine you would do the same thing.

  My problem is not *how* to do it, but why? Any fool can work out how
to do it. It takes genius to do it simply.

Regards,
Bob
 
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12
@EOT:

---