Hi August.

24 Mar 20 17:52:34, you wrote to mark lewis:

 AI>>> I still find arcmail bundles are neat, tidy and efficient.

 ml>> they're also a PITA when it comes to archiving pkts for possible
 ml>> diagnostics or recovery... not to mention wasting time just to bundle
 ml>> one pkt as is seen in so many transfers these days with virtually
 ml>> realtime conversations ;)

 AA> Maybe this is a good time to have a utility that merges individual .pkt
files into a
 AA> big one, say if the pkts qty reaches a certain number.

There already is one: pktsort. It reads all the .pkts in a directory and writes
one (or more).

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FTS-0001 PacketSorter v1.4 [unregistered] (c) 1993, 1994 by Rolf K. Wilms
         libg++ (c) 1987-1993 Free Software Foundation (see license.doc)

Usage:   pktsort [-c] [-w] [-s] [-p]
                 [-osubject | -otime] [-g] [-l] [-d]
                 [-h] [-e [args] | program-with-args]

                                                                     Default

         -c   configuration file                           pktsort.cfg
         -w  number of messages to keep in memory                1000
         -s   limit in bytes for (un)splitting messages   no (un)split
         -p  max. number of messages in output packets           1000
         -otime     sort messages by time                                 no
         -osubject  sort messages by subject and time                     no
         -g   remove garbage, rename pkt if garbage > size          no
         -e  select archiver entry from config file              none
         -l   log file name                                       none
         -d    directory where packets are searched             current
         -h         this help
         [program-with-args]  exec. archiver before processing packets

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'Tommi

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