BL>> Each of the .d files has a .x equivalent. What does this mean?
 BL>> Does the x-file identify the d-file, and can I rely on the .x
 BL>> extension on the X File? I know the truth is out there
 BL>> somewhere...

 JG> From my Watergate manual. It's a good explanation

  It's an *excellent* explanation! I nearly wet myself when I found
it. I nearly sent off the $30 at once. For one sublime moment, I
thought they were going to describe the file format in the same simple
language, but alas...

 JG> What you are seeing is the culmination of puting all of those
 JG> RFC documents together, tumbling them around and assuming the
 JG> first page spewed out was Gods word on uucp connects. It's as
 JG> good an explanation as you'll get anywhere else.

  It's a great tutorial, right through. The guy who wrote that was
IQ-positive... in direct contrast to the uniwankers who wrote the RFC
garbage.

 JG> Unfortunately, there isn't an areafix for uucp :-( You've more
 JG> or less got to ask Paul to get it for you and then get yourself
 JG> hooked in. 

  Pathetic, isn't it? I'm trying to push Paul into writing his own. He
ought to be able to fiddle Tobruk. What we need is a dead-simple thing
like TinyPoint that we *all* use, so we're *all* nodes able to dial
the Internet independently with no hubs. 

 JG> Bob, try and look for a package with waffle in it's name. This
 JG> might do everything instead of just getting the mail as
 JG> fxuucico does. If it does, you shouldn't have to worry about
 JG> the .d or .x extensions. From what I've read, fxuucico is a
 JG> replacement for waffles uucico, but it doesn't include all the
 JG> other goodies. Does that make sense? 

  I've looked for waffle, but there's *nothing* on the spcug. The
decompression is no longer a worry... it's written. Delphi makes it
very easy. Now I have ot decode the mail into messages and headers,
and write a a simple editor (unless keith has finished his and is
willing to donate it) and get on with the answering-mail part.

Regards,
Bob
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