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   August Abolins to Maurice Kinal   
   which is why I built my own..   
   27 Dec 25 10:17:00   
   
   MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 27d478c5   
   REPLY: 1:153/7001 694f30aa   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.64 (Win32)   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   TZUTC: -0500   
   Hello Maurice!   
      
   ** On Saturday 27.12.25 - 01:04, you wrote:   
      
    >> So, basically you list your messages with ls?   
      
    MK> As of this writing, all incoming is dumped into a single   
    MK> file with individual msgs occupying a line.  Thus "wc -l"   
    MK> incoming.file will yeild the number of msgs in the file.   
      
    MK> Each msg (line) contains five fields;   
    MK> $DateTime\0$To\0$From\0$Subject\0\$Body\n   
      
   One line per message.. sounds very efficient.  +1   
      
      
    >> And I suppose you can't display msgid-relationships for navigating a   
    >> thread?   
      
    MK> Yes.  kludges are part of $Body and are easily be   
    MK> 'grep'ped from that field.  They stick out like a sore   
    MK> thumb given the leading '\1' character.  However I could   
    MK> easily be convinced to putting kludges into their own   
    MK> field.   
      
   You'd need extra logic to produce a FULL list of threaded/    
   connected messages.  But two at a time isn't too bad.   
      
   You should produce a vid illustrating how you do typical     
   reading/searching/replying activities.   
      
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