Hey Jame!   
      
   30 Jul 11 12:06, Jame Clay wrote to Maurice Kinal:   
      
    JC>     Will you be makeing those functions publically available?   
      
   Sure thing.  I'll put it on the ftp site as soon as I do a bit more tweaking.    
   As is the FTN functions rely on ascii2binary and I wish to replicate that with   
   perl's pack if that is preferable.  Also most of the variables for pkt and msg   
   headers are hardcoded with my particular FTN addresses etc. and that needs to   
   be resolved first.   
      
   I like your idea with the perl modules however I'd personally prefer if it   
   were a perl script rather than modules and I believe adding perl's pack to the   
   bash FTN functions where needed is a nifty way to exploit perl without the   
   need for modularization.   
      
   I am guesstimating having the above available within a week and will post the   
   url in this echo once the first alpha version is ready for testing.  I'll make   
   both the ascii2binary and perl FTN functions available seperately in case one   
   is more desirable than the other.  I'd hope that you'll grab both and let me   
   know which you think is better.  Myself I am thinking the ascii2binary would   
   be extremely useful on more embedded type enviroments where perl would be too   
   much bloat to the system.  Also I like comparing and contrasting especially   
   where lean and mean is the objective no matter what.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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