Steve Read wrote in a message to All:
SR> My wife likes to collect recipes from the cooking echoes.  I
SR> was wondering if you had seen some kind of utility that
SR> would extract an entire echo to as a text file.  I've been
TOPX_111.ZIP, available here by FREQ.  From the doc file:
           TopicX is a utility program written for systems with a
   Fido or  Max -compatible  message structure.    TopicX  allows
   extraction of  messages based  on keywords  found within  each
   message.  TopicX extracts  the messages to  a flat ASCII  file
   (and optionally inserted into an  archive), which can be  read
   or downloaded by  users.  TopicX  is much more  than a  simple
   find utility  -- TopicX  has a  set of  sophisticated  options
   which allow   you  to do  everything from  the normal  to  the
   sublime.  Since  time is valuable,  especially when  searching
   large EchoMail areas, TopicX  has been hand-optimized to  give
   the fastest   performance  possible,  while searching for  and
   extracting   messages.   TopicX is  perfect for  systems  that
   carry a large number of EchoMail areas: The SysOp can create a
   configuration file  that  will create concise topical extracts
   from  each EchoMail area, and make them available to users for
   downloading.  In this way, a large volume of  extracts  can be
   collected, and made available to the general public.
           Not only can a user find the information s/he wants on
   a particular  topic  FAST, but they don't have to wade through
   all of   the  "noise"   usually   involved   with the  average
   EchoMail conference.  The  extracts  can  also  be  compressed
   using your  favorite archiving  program  and inserted  into  a
   download  area,  which  reduces   users'  on-line  time   even
   further.  Not  only does  TopicX  make things easier for  your
   users, the configuration file is also  easy  for the SysOp  to
   maintain.  By keeping all  the information in one  centralized
   control file -- rather than three or four -- TopicX allows the
   SysOp to maintain a topic extraction  system with a minimum of
   effort.  Although TopicX is primarily EchoMail oriented, there
   are several  features  that  allow TopicX to be used in  other
   situations as well.   EchoMail is a rich flow of  information,
   that TopicX can compile  to create interesting and informative
   extracts.
It was written by Scott Dudley, BTW. 
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