Hi Maurice!

>....   I did like your perl script

    You mean, the pkt2txt.pl script?   If so, that one wasn't all mine though I
did also work on it...   
    Haven't had a chance to work on FTN related perl scripts much, recently; 
even had something I intended to do for the HPT perl hooks, but haven't had
a chance to work on that either...  Do still intend to work on it,
though,...


> although that needs some hacking to bring it in sync.

    In sync with?


>  Definetly a good idea,

     IIRC, the other author was the one who really pushed the text version;  I
was more interested in the one that generates html pages...


>  though but I think you worried too much
> about compatibilty with other OS's which isn't an issue.

      Perhaps not for you....


>  It only needs to be compatible with the host machine as
> the output should take care of compatibilty across the board.

    It's intended to be usable on different systems, although I have no
idea if anyone used it on anything but a Linux system...


>  Heck it could
> even output big endian if you wanted it to.  ;-)

   Haven't even looked at those kind of issues yet (though I'd like to),
largely because I don't have that kind of  a system...


> Definetly a good strategy methinks.  Care to talk about that?

     Well, not here;   if it's not relevant to the Husky project programs.  
Perhaps in the Perl echo?

     Also;  if you have a Sourceforge account, I could add you in to the ftnpl
project there....   I have local copies (& repositories) , of course, but I
still use the CVS repository at the ftnpl sourceforge project as the
primary repository for FTN related Perl scripts, etc...



Jame


    

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