Hello Maurice,

On 06 Jan 15 22:12, Maurice Kinal wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 MK> No rush as far as I am concerned.  I uploaded the basic bash function
 MK> I am currently using for unpacking and you can decide it you want to
 MK> replicate it.  Feel free to edit it to suit.  I have the call to tar
 MK> to make backups of raw pkts so that recycled filenames don't get
 MK> overwritten which can and does happen.  Other than that only sed, gawk
 MK> and tr are called to create a new messages file with the format
 MK> specified be gawk, the result being a formatted file with one message
 MK> per line, with the fields null padded.  The tr call ensures that all
 MK> linefeeds are changed to a seldom if ever used ascii control character
 MK> and can be safely stripped if desired.  I leave them in so I can see
 MK> who is doing that silliness.  ;-)

 MK> Also the last sed call strips out the seen-bys and paths so if you
 MK> wish to keep them you can safely delete that particular part.

 MK> I think that covers it.  Let me know if it doesn't.

Okay, so then how do you separate each message into individual messages to read
or reply to? And the quoting, where is that done?

Separate scripts? Or all manual?

Regards,
Nick

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