-=> Quoting Paul Edwards to Bob Lawrence <=-

Hello Paul,

 BL> How do I identify actual mail? The mad "#! cunbatch" line is not on
 BL> all mail... 

 PE> I think it should be, on all news.
 
 Newsgroups (equiv to fido echos) are compressed.  Mail (equiv to fido netmail)
is never compressed.  This seems to be the norm on unix systems.

 The idea being, you have some type of script on your unix machine that looks
for this cunbatch header thingy, which also identifies the *type* of
compression, and then you use "batch" files to use whatever decompression
program to extract the files.

 In the dos world I imagine you would do the same thing.

John Tserkezis, Sydney, Oz. Fidonet: 3:712/610  Internet: jt{at}suburbia.com.au

... We are upping our standards... so up yours.
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