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   Pytnon-FTN: API and tools for Fidonet and other FTN networks   
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   Python-FTN is a set of Python modules that provide the following   
   capabilities:   
      
   - Generating FTN messages.   
   - Editing message data.   
   - Displaying and querying message data.   
   - Packing/unpacking FTN mail packets.   
   - Editing packet data.   
   - Displaying and querying packet data.   
   - Parsing and querying FTN nodelists.   
   - Making routing decsisions from nodelist data.   
      
   The python-ftn API makes it easy to develop new tools that interact   
   with FTN format data.   
      
   Python-ftn supports FTS-0001 "on disk" and "packed" messages (and can   
   convert between them), and supports both FTS-0001 ("type 2") and   
   FSC-0048 ("type 2+") packets.   
      
   Availability   
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   Python-ftn is available from:   
      
   - http://projects.oddbit.com/python-ftn/   
      
   Online documentation is available from:   
      
   - https://github.com/larsks/python-ftn/wiki   
      
   Examples   
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   Change the destination of an outbound packet::   
      
     $ ftn-editpkt --dest 1:322/761 00000001.pkt   
      
   Change the sender name in a message::   
      
     $ ftn-editmsg --from 'A Different Person' 1.msg   
      
   Create and pack a message for delivery::   
      
     $ echo "My body text" |   
     ftn-makemsg \   
       --from 'Lars Kellogg-Stedman' \   
     --to 'Someone Else' \   
     --orig 1:322/761 \   
     --dest 99:99/99 \   
     --subject "This is a test" \   
     --flag killSent --flag private |   
     ftn-pack -d 1:322/759 --out 014202f7.out   
      
   Examine the generated packet::   
      
     $ ftn-scanpkt -m 014202f7.out   
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     014202f7.out:  1:322/761 -> 1:322/759 @ 2011-02-26 23:31:59   
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     [000]   
     From: Lars Kellogg-Stedman @ 322/761   
     To: Someone Else @ 99/99   
     Date: 26 Feb 11  23:31:59   
     Subject: This is a test   
     Flags: KILLSENT PRIVATE   
      
   Author   
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   Python-ftn was written by Lars Kellogg-Stedman.   
      
   - Fidonet: Lars @ 1:322/761   
   - Internet: lars@oddbit.com   
   - Twitter: the_odd_bit   
      
    * Origin: The Odd Bit 1:322/761   
      
   --- slrn/0.9.9p1 (Darwin)   
    * Origin: Fidonet Via Newsreader - http://www.easternstar.info (1:123/789.0)