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   Tommi Koivula to August Abolins   
   ARCMAIL   
   25 Mar 20 07:31:12   
   
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   Hi August.   
      
   24 Mar 20 17:52:34, you wrote to mark lewis:   
      
    AI>>> I still find arcmail bundles are neat, tidy and efficient.   
      
    ml>> they're also a PITA when it comes to archiving pkts for possible   
    ml>> diagnostics or recovery... not to mention wasting time just to bundle   
    ml>> one pkt as is seen in so many transfers these days with virtually   
    ml>> realtime conversations ;)   
      
    AA> Maybe this is a good time to have a utility that merges individual .pkt   
   files into a   
    AA> big one, say if the pkts qty reaches a certain number.   
      
   There already is one: pktsort. It reads all the .pkts in a directory and   
   writes one (or more).   
      
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   FTS-0001 PacketSorter v1.4 [unregistered] (c) 1993, 1994 by Rolf K. Wilms   
            libg++ (c) 1987-1993 Free Software Foundation (see license.doc)   
      
   Usage:   pktsort [-c] [-w] [-s] [-p]   
                    [-osubject | -otime] [-g] [-l] [-d]   
                    [-h] [-e [args] | program-with-args]   
      
                                                                        Default   
      
            -c   configuration file                           pktsort.cfg   
            -w  number of messages to keep in memory                1000   
            -s   limit in bytes for (un)splitting messages   no (un)split   
            -p  max. number of messages in output packets           1000   
            -otime     sort messages by time                                 no   
            -osubject  sort messages by subject and time                     no   
            -g   remove garbage, rename pkt if garbage > size          no   
            -e  select archiver entry from config file              none   
            -l   log file name                                       none   
            -d    directory where packets are searched             current   
            -h         this help   
            [program-with-args]  exec. archiver before processing packets   
      
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   'Tommi   
      
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