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   Wilfred van Velzen to mark lewis   
   Re: fmail not packing crash-netmail?   
   04 Dec 13 09:07:47   
   
   Hi mark,   
      
   On 03 Dec 13 11:08, mark lewis wrote to Tom De Puysseleyr:   
     about: "fmail not packing crash-netmail?":   
      
    TDP>> Does binkd support unpacked messages? I would assume it doesn't   
    TDP>> care which type file is specified in the .flo file, it just   
    TDP>> transfers it to the other side. If that's the case, then the   
    TDP>> reason would be within fmail...   
      
    ml> yes, binkd does and you are right in that it doesn't care what's in the   
    ml> files... raw PKTs in BSO format have an ?UT extension... CUT are crash,   
    ml> DUT are direct, i think FUT is normal non-crash non-direct but would have   
    ml> to dig out the documentation from the original binkleyterm... when these   
    ml> ?UT files are sent to the remote, they are renamed in transmission to at   
    ml> least have an extension of PKT so the other side will recognize them...   
      
    ml> on the local BSO side, they could also be named PKT but then a ?LO file is   
    ml> required to point to them for transmission...   
      
   That looks about right... ;)   
      
   The full specification is here:   
      
   http://ftsc.org/docs/fsp-1034.001   
      
   (If anyone is interested)   
      
   Wilfred.   
      
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