-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 MK> -={ Tuesday, 26 April 2016, 10:09:17.273613146 +1000 }=-

 MK> Hey Tony!

 TL> Will see if I can get onto TUXPOWER.

 MK> Near as I can tell it shouldn't be a problem seeing it shows up as
 MK> https://fidonet.ozzmosis.com/echomail.php/tuxpower which if I am not
 MK> mistaken is run by one of your partners in crime (ie a fellow Aussie).
 MK> I think he might even be in the same net as you.

Cool, should be fine then. :)  Might even be already hooked up, but I'll do
checks and areafix it, if necessary. :)

 TL> Yes, sounds like the place to go.

 MK> For sure.  Also it being a dead echo that was orignally planned as a
 MK> place to talk scripting seems like a much better plan than starting one
 MK> out from scratch.

Sounds like the perfect place, and an excuse to give it some activity. :)

 TL> Text manipulation is not my strongest suit (in any language - it's a PITA

 MK> It can be.  However there are many ways to skin a cat and as far as
 MK> null terminated data is concerned this sort of idea can make it
 MK> simpler;

 MK>   gawk -F'\0' '{ print $1, $2, $3, $4, $5 }' raw_msg.file

 MK> Note there isn't a need to translate the nulls into anything else but I
 MK> am sure we'd want to get more complicated than the above in order to do
 MK> anything truly meaningful with it.

Need to get a lay of the land first. :)


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