Short: Fixes date in DLG/CNET msg for UMS_Fido. Author: jmx@ramses.fdn.org (Jean-Marc Xiume) Uploader: jmx ramses telesys-innov fr (Jean-Marc Xiume) Type: comm/ums Architecture: m68k-amigaos ************************************************************************** UMS_FidoFix v1.2 - Fidonet packet fixing for UMS_Fido Copyright (C) 1996 Jean-Marc Xiume' This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Read "license.doc" for more details. ************************************************************************** Introduction ------------ If you never had problems with ums_fido, this isn't for you. This software tries to fix some data in a fido packet that causes ums_fido to post an error message, put the imported message in the "bad-news" folder, and junk the packet. This is also a problem if you're operating a gateway. The main problem I'm aware of concerns the date format of messages created by the DLG and CNet BBS software. Examples : DLG : Tue 6 Feb 96 1:04 (missing "0" in the hour) SEAdog : Tue 6 Feb 96 01:04 CNet : 6 Feb 96 1:04:00 (missing "0" in day and hour) Normal : 06 Feb 96 01:04:00 UMS_FidoFix simply adds those missing zeros, directly in the message packet. Other formats are not supported yet (are there any other ?) Tell me if you need some more conversions. Installation ------------ Simply copy Fidofix somewhere in your path. I'd suggest ums:bin/ Usage ----- Fidofix Where is a fido packet received directly from your boss as ".pkt" files or bundled into a compressed archive as ".mo0" files. You can use the included "uff" script to automatically extract the packets from the archive, fidofix them, and delete the original archive. This script asks two arguments, both must end with a ":" or a "/" : - the inbound directory, where to find the original packet or archive - the packet directory, where to extract the packets. This must be on your hard disk (for obvious security reasons) and should be the place where fidoimport usually stores its temporary files. As this can be a dangerous operation, you should always keep a backup of your original bundles, just in case... ;) Once the packets are fixed, import them normally with fidoimport. That's all ! Notes ----- I wonder if this little piece of software will be usefull to someone... :) So please if you use it, let me know ! Comments and suggestions are welcome: smail: Jean-Marc Xiumé Parc du Belvédère 83120 Sainte-Maxime FRANCE fidonet : 2:320/104.22 amiganet: 39:180/1.22 usenet : jmx@ramses.fdn.org (for mails <10Kb) jmx@ramses.telesys-innov.fr (for mails >10Kb) jmx.topaz@ruby.frmug.fr.net History ------- see source file Fidofix.c