Hey Jame!   
      
    JC> but I don't think I've seen a script using that yet...   
      
   Right.  Still working out the kinks which as of this writing are   
   getting dealt with.  As for the tr call it does a much neater and   
   perhaps faster job of replacing newlines with more DOS-think FTN 0x0d   
   types in the outbound msg's than sed methinks.  Something like this;   
      
     fmt -s -w 72 $TMPMSG | tr '\n' '\015' > $TMP_FTNMSG   
      
   The '\015' is octal not hex.  Currently that is the last call before   
   tacking on kludges, etc. and packing into an outbound pkt.  TMPMSG is   
   still pure text without any binary data in it and is more suitable   
   for archiving although it is only the body part of the message   
   and lacks the To:, From:, etc.  I still am not sure how I wish any   
   archived messages to be like locally but definetly lean towards pure   
   text with zero binary and especially not mixed types of binary in a   
   willy-nilly fashion.  pkt and msg headers are just too bizarre to be   
   of any real consequence locally.  Beats me what anyone sees in them.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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