Hello Lawrence.
21 Jan 98 23:42, Lawrence Lucier wrote to All:
 LL> When sqpack'ng my echo message bases, sqpack performs without any
 LL> problems when either using the -$d or -$m arguments.  My squish based
 LL> newsgroups areas are another thing though.....it doesn't seem to
 LL> matter if I use the -$d or -$m arguments or what value they are set
 LL> at, some of my newsgroups areas will get packed correctly but others
 LL> won't.
Squish brands the settings to the datafiles when it creates the files by 
tossing to them.  Since you are creating/tossing them with another program 
that evidently doesn't do this, SQPACK doesn't find the info in the .SQD 
files when it executes.  You can verify this by running SQSET (without 
settings) against the ones that aren't packing and you'll probably get 0 0 0 
in return.  Do the same against an area that =is= packing properly and you 
should get some real values instead of all zeroes.  SQSET the values you want 
on the areas without them, and SQPACK should behave as you'd expect.
 LL> Using Vsoup to grab the newsgroups and SOS to toss them into a squish
 LL> message based format.
Does SOS parse SQUISH.CFG or does it have it's own config for the newsgroup 
areas?  You may want to nag the author to support the flags, if he's not.
.\\ike
PS You might want to look at NGate if you're not actually using the SOUP 
format for anything.  It goes straight from the NNTP server to the Squishbase 
without any intermediate file format(s) or additional conversion steps.
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