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In Article <VA.000000c3.00c7ec45@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> Nikki Locke  
writes:
>VA will unbatch batch.txt files as they come

Excellent - I'll give this a shot. I have the shareware version sat on 
my hard disk. I'm not sure I followed your instructions on how to do it 
too well, but I'll see what I can work out.

>Mail is a little more difficult - because KA9Q dumps mail on to the 
>end of existing mail files, and because there is no official delimiter 
>between mail messages as such. However, it would be pretty trivial to 
>write a pre-processor to put the messages into VA format. All it 
>requires is a a line "Memo #n (ssss)", where n is an ascending 
>sequential number, and ssss is the size of the message in bytes, 

Do you know offhand whether VA accepts n and ssss values with leading 
zeros? It would be trivial to get KA9Q to put "Memo #00000 (00000000)" 
in as the seperator (using the "smtp seperator" line in autoexec.net); 
writing a small app to go through the file afterwards filling in those 
values ought not be too hard. (If leading zeros are a problem, how 
about leading/trailing spaces?)

If "n" is ascending, how does VA cope with deleted messages?

>You gets lots of other spiffy goodies with VA, too.

What is your relationship with VA? ISTR that it isn't strictly 
"platonic" ... 

Mark.
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int MeaningOfLife (void) { return 42; }   // mcr@holly.demon.co.uk
function MeaningOfLife :integer; begin MeaningOfLife := 6 * 9 end;