FM> Hi, Keith.

KR>  FM> [later] Well I seem to have got all of AvTech anyway, from dates in
KR>  FM> both weeks of my absence - 670 messages, and *not* in chronological
KR>  FM> order!

KR> PE> I don't think the messages would ever be in chronological order if you
KR> just
KR> PE> unzip them.

KR>  FM> No, neither do I. It was just interesting to read, in many cases,
KR>  FM> replies before I read the original.

KR> why not use paul markham's pktsort, i've got it in the mailer.bat, it sorts
KR> all the echoes by thread, date, and sender. it is an excelent program, does
KR> all of what it advertises quickly and without fuss.

 FM> Does it work on QWKs? Or PKTs? Can you put it on TML? The only one
 FM> which
 FM> seems to be there is SRTPK104.ZIP, 275k, which I'll d/l on the next
 FM> call.

i think that that is the one, it will take whatever packets are in the
directory that you specify, extract the messages, sort them according to
your specificaton, and rebuild them into one new packet (having deleted the
input packets).

keith
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