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from: Jon Watson
date: 2004-10-13 22:20:16
subject: FTN Packet File Structure?

Can someone point me to a reference somewhere on the structure of a *.pkt
file? I can find bits and pieces strewn about the Internet, but I haven't
found any definitive source yet.

While I'm on the topic - I'm looking to ditch REX for my outbound gating
and want to parse the pkt files myself for insertion into my web forums
database. I can easily get the To, From and Subject field out because
they're null terminated, but I can't see any way to get just the message
text by itself out without taking all the msgid's, times, and everything
else that falls between the end of the subject and the beginning of the
actual message. Anyone got any bright ideas there?

Thanks!

Jon
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