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     ----- ftn_example.sh starts -----   
   #!/bin/bash   
      
   split_address(){   
     var=`echo "$1" | sed 's/[:/.]/ /g'`   
     set -- $var  echo "$1 $2 $3 $4"   
     unset var   
   }   
   pkt_header()   
   {  origvar="$1"; destvar=$2; pktHeader="$3"   
      
     set -- $origvar  origZone=$1; origNet=$2; origNode=$3; origPoint=$4   
     unset origvar   
     set -- $destvar   
     destZone=$1; destNet=$2; destNode=$3; destPoint=$4   
     unset destvar   
     PKT_DATE=( $(date +"%Y %-m %-d %-H %-M %-S") )   
     let "PKT_DATE[1] -= 1"   
     echo "$origNode $destNode ${PKT_DATE[@]} 0 2 $origNet $destNet \   
           0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $origZone $destZone 0 0 0 0 \        0 $origZone   
   $destZone $origPoint $destPoint 0 0" | \   
       perl -e 'while(<>){@myarray = split(/ +/, $_);};\   
       print pack("S12C10S4C2S7", @myarray);' > $pktHeader  unset PKT_DATE   
   pktHeader ${!dest*} ${!orig*}   
   }   
   ########### Example usage   
   echo "  -------- Output from example ftn-functions.sh starts --------"   
   echoecho "==============================="   
   echo "Function split_address() output"   
   echo "==============================="echo   
   origAddr=( "$(split_address "1:2/3.4")" )   
   echo -n "origAddr = ( ${origAddr[@]} ), produced from FTN address '"printf   
   "%d:%d/%d.%d'\n" $(echo ${origAddr[@]})   
   echo   
   destAddr=( "$(split_address "5:6/7.8")" )echo -n "origAddr = ( ${destAddr[@]}   
   ), produced from FTN address '"   
   printf "%d:%d/%d.%d'\n" $(echo ${destAddr[@]})   
   echoecho "============================"   
   echo "Function pkt_header() output"   
   echo "============================"echo   
   tmp_pktHeader="$(mktemp XXXXXXXX.pkt)"   
   pkt_header "${origAddr[@]}" "${destAddr[@]}" "$tmp_pktHeader"echo "Size of   
   $tmp_pktHeader: $(stat -c%s $tmp_pktHeader) bytes."   
   echo "Add pktheader delimiter and show result from hpt's pktinfo"   
   perl -e 'print pack("S", 0);' >> $tmp_pktHeader   
   echo   
   echo "----------------------------------------"pktinfo -h $tmp_pktHeader   
   echo -n "Cleaning up ... "   
   rm -v $tmp_pktHeader; unset origAddr destAdrrecho   
   echo "  -------- Output from example ftn-functions.sh ends --------"   
   exit 0   
     ----- ftn_example.sh ends -----   
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