Hallo Maurice!

"MK" == Maurice Kinal
 writes:

 MK> Okay.  I only have bzip2 and gzip.  

Zip has been ported to virtually any platform as free open-source software.
Your distribution has it, too - regardless of which you use. :-)

 SD>> Squish or another messagebase format may be replaces with SQL
 SD>> database to helps searching and data conversions (share one
 SD>> messagebase between newsserver, webserver and message editor).
 MK> Nothing like that here.

Maybe, but it still would be useful here.

 SD>> PKT may be replaced with XML.
 MK> Don't use that.  Is it better 

Compared to plain text? Of course. We're dealing with structured data here
so XML beats plain text easily in this context.

 MK> and how can I get hpt to toss between pkt and xml formats if that
 MK> is an option?  What about plain text?

You could always transform XML to virtually any text-based format. 

-- 
Grüße, Wulf

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