Benny Pedersen wrote in the LINUX echo:   
   > Hello Jame!   
   > 10 Jun 2011 11:10, Jame Clay wrote to Maurice Kinal:   
   >> There are Perl FTN related modules available which use such things as the   
   >> pack function to do things like read/write FTN packets. The PERL echo is   
   >> back in distribution and discussions about such things is more than   
   >> welcome there!   
   > ----- jame.log begins -----   
   >[N] perl-gcpan/FTN-Database [1] (0.20): FTN SQL Database related operations fo   
   > Fidonet/FTN related processing.   
   > [N] perl-gcpan/FTN-JAM [1] (0.04): A Perl extension for handleing JAM   
   > messagebases.   
   > [N] perl-gcpan/FTN-Log [1] (0.06): Perl extension for logging Fidonet   
   > Technology Networks (FTN) related processing.   
   > [N] perl-gcpan/FTN-SRIF [1] (0.05): Perl extension to parse an Fidonet/FTN   
   > Standard Request Information File.   
   > [1] "fidonet" /var/lib/layman/fidonet   
   > ----- jame.log ends -----   
   > added your 4 perl modules to my gentoo overlay, gentoo/funtoo users can now   
   > install via portage like this:   
   > layman -a fidonet   
   > emerge -a FTN-SRIF   
   > or other modules, thanks for helping more users   
      
      I don't know if he's done the other FTN modules yet...   
      
      
   Jame   
      
      
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