Subj : Re: TZUTC Kludge
To   : deon
From : Avon
Date : Sun Apr 25 2021 01:26 pm

On 24 Apr 2021 at 09:35a, deon pondered and said...
 
 de> OK, you dont have to use txt2pkt, if you are getting message into msg
 de> bases another way.

Just hpt post at present.

 de> * If your script that creates info.txt doesnt send it to stdout, but to
 de> a filename, then after info.txt is created, you can call cp437-tz.
 de> 
 de> eg: cat info.txt | cp437-tz > info_with_kludges.txt

Gotcha this is what I'll try now.

 de> * Or in my case, I stream everything into txt2pkt, so no "file" is
 de> created.
 de> 
 de> eg: my_script | cp437-tz | txt2pkt
 de> txt2pkt just creates a packet with "from", "to", "origin", etc and can
 de> create that packet from stdin, or using data in an existing file (eg:
 de> your info.txt).

and do you state the packet is from 3/100 and to 3/100?

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