On 11/20/16, Rick Christian said the following...   
       
    RC> For some stuff higher up the food chain, PKT's and NL's   
    RC>    
    RC> https://github.com/fidoman/PyFTN   
    RC>    
    RC> This one is 3.x+ ONLY.   
      
   I'm sticking to 2.x but I'll check it out and may get some insight on how to   
   do some things.    
      
    RC>    
    RC> https://github.com/larsks/python-ftn/wiki   
    RC>    
    RC> This one is 2.x and works with similar PKT and other stuff..   
      
   I think I found both of these. I'm going to look closer at them, just because   
   it appears that JAM is just going to be too tough to do based on the   
   documentation. I read the JAM stuff and my mind melts. I just can't wrap my   
   head around binary file manipulation... yet! Never give up! Never Surrender!   
      
    RC> Neither are JAM base, but FYI for you if you want to work with stuff   
    RC> further up.   
      
   Yes I do. I'm trying to code a CNet BBS clone in Python and make it more   
   modern on the backend. I figured JAM would be easy for fido/FTN capabilities.   
   Just bake it in. But it seems to be outside my skills for now. I'll look at   
   these and work on trying rolling my own toss to bring stuff in and out of the   
   message bases.    
      
    RC> And just FYI the Jam Lib stuff (which is C) has issues on 64b v. 32b...   
    RC> As my JamNNTPd version has to force 32b or it corrupts the JAM bases. At   
    RC> least posting wise.. reading doesn't seem to be an issue.. Just FYI...   
      
   OK, good to know! Thank you!   
      
   73.   
   de Rich, KB2MOB   
      
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