Things seem to be progressing nicely with the newer multi-platform ports of
Max and Squish,  and I hear about nodelist compilers and other stuff that
I'd need here...

There are a few other bits though,  that I'd *really* like to have,  before
I go ahead and port the whole system over to linux:

DLC -- this is what puts those download counts into the files.bbs files. 
It can initialize any given file directory,  though I usually stick those
brackets in there by hand when I create the files.bbs,  and updates them by
reading the logs of both Max and Bink.  I would imagine that it would be
possible to do something of this sort with some creative scripting,  maybe?

PolyXArc and PktSort -- The former is a sort of a universal unpacker, 
takes whatever archives are there and unpackes them to give you *.PKT
files.  I *think* that source for this was available,  might even have it, 
I'd have to look.  The latter is another story.  There were a couple of
programs out there to do this,  I have 'em both in my files section,  but
like PktSort better.  The big problem is that it's an orphan. 
Unregisterable.  What it does is take a bunch of *.PKT files,  sorts them
according to what echos they're in,  and outputs one *big* *.PKT file as
output.  There are other things in there,  such as being able to split
messages that are too big,  and similar stuff that I don't care much about,
 but this *really* speeds up the tossing process for me.  If I had to move
to linux and not have this,  I think I'd miss it a lot...

Any of you guys have ideas as to how something of this sort could be implemented?

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