jim barchuk wrote in a message to all:

 jb> As it stands now I could easily kludge some utils together to

This *may* be your best option.

 jb> convert the plain text inet msgs to packets, then toss them. What i
 jb> don't happen to have on hand is something to split the fido packets
 jb> into compatible text msgs. 

FSC documents explain what the .PKT files are like; they themselves
are not bad.  If you are only using this for *your* BBS,
you don't have to worry about the quirks of every single fido
package out there.  If you *ARE* going to use this outside of 
your BBS (ie, other people in your area that might want to use it via fido
entmail), then be prepared for hell on the fido side.

GIGO's first version was 3 days for the usenet/email (including configuration
parsing, getting the right destination, etc).  The other 27 days of that month,
was the abomination called fidonet technology..

 jb> So, is there something avail that can do -just- the basic
 jb> conversion, packet  text, that's it. No 300k executables with
 jb> 200 pages of docs and 200 lines of configs, no bells, no whistles,
 jb> no fluff.

That first version of GIGO, before even Jim Northup saw it, was under
100k..

cheers,
 jason