Subj : FTN Packet File Structure?
To   : Jon Watson
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Oct 14 2004 11:18 am

 JW> Can someone point me to a reference somewhere on the structure
 JW> of a *.pkt file? I can find bits and pieces strewn about the
 JW> Internet, but I haven't found any definitive source yet.

uh... what's wrong with the FTSC documents? /they/ are the definitive documents 
on FTN stuffs...

 JW> While I'm on the topic - I'm looking to ditch REX for my
 JW> outbound gating and want to parse the pkt files myself for
 JW> insertion into my web forums database. I can easily get the
 JW> To, From and Subject field out because they're null
 JW> terminated, but I can't see any way to get just the message
 JW> text by itself out without taking all the msgid's, times, and
 JW> everything else that falls between the end of the subject and
 JW> the beginning of the actual message. Anyone got any bright
 JW> ideas there?

those control lines are in there for a reason... some of those control lines 
are what i was speaking of in other conversations with you on this topic...

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