Greetings All!

My uplink is providing me an archive of some older messages that I wanted in .msg format I use jam on my system what kind of options do I have as far as adding them to my msgbase?



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On 19.1.2023 2.31, Rick Smith wrote:

My uplink is providing me an archive of some older messages that I
wanted in .msg format I use jam on my system what kind of options do
I have as far as adding them to my msgbase?

There is a program called mbmerge which can do the job.

I would do it with GoldED, as Nil suggested.

'Tommi

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Hello Tommi!

Thursday January 19 2023 10:10, you wrote to me:

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On 19.1.2023 2.31, Rick Smith wrote:

My uplink is providing me an archive of some older messages that I
wanted in .msg format I use jam on my system what kind of options do
I have as far as adding them to my msgbase?

There is a program called mbmerge which can do the job.

I would do it with GoldED, as Nil suggested.

I must not have that message, as I do not see any other response but yours..?

Regards,

Rick

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Originally by: Nil Alexandrov, 1:16/101
Original date: 18/01/2023 20.42
Subject: msg vs jam
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Hello, Rick!

Wednesday January 18 2023 16:31, from Rick Smith -> All:

My uplink is providing me an archive of some older messages that I
wanted in .msg format

Sounds like you are getting an archive of fido messages outside of the established message flow. I mean, you might %rescan old messages from your uplink, so that you would get a ton of messages in .pkt format which your tosser could potentially toss into your message base of choice.

I use jam on my system what kind of options do I have as far as
adding them to my msgbase?

Well, if you were coming from the world of Fidonet of 90th, where we had a bunch of cool utilities to deal with the database formats, you would probably not ask this question.

And frankly speaking, there is no such tool available withing the Husky ambarella. FWIW, the sqpack utility which is supposed to purge the database will make your JAM base fakked because it recreates the file with the basemsgnum set to 1, which invalidates all the UMSGIDs. Smapinntpd users have swallowed a bullet and accepted this limitation though.

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A bit of off topic in the husky echo but your tearline has actually gives you a clue here already. The modest approach to your problem would be to set up two areas, one with the legacy .msg directory and the other with a brand new JAM database. Then using the GoldEd you can select all messages, copy and paste them into the target area and voila (miss some accent here) your have got it!

Best Regards, Nil
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Hello Nil!

18 Jan 23, Nil Alexandrov wrote to Rick Smith:

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would be to set up two areas, one with the legacy .msg directory and
the other with a brand new JAM database. Then using the GoldEd you can select all messages, copy and paste them into the target area and
voila (miss some accent here) your have got it!

Does that updates the dupes database too?

Regards

Kai

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Hello Nil!

22 Jan 23, Nil Alexandrov wrote to Kai Richter:

There is a special the FTN format that was created for that kind
of mail exchange. Just use PKT. Any FTN tosser should be able to
read and write PKT because it's the common mail exchange format
between ftn systems.

I setup a point system in the config and issued a rescan AreaFix
request from that point address. Your tosser will read out the
original message base format and will produce messages in .pkt format. Having a point system in this setup will not add extra seen-by/path fields, so the metadata (aka kludges) will stay the same with probably
one exception for HPT which will add the rescanned kludge.

Thanks a lot for that detail. I used a node with with addseenby to protect the rescanned mails from re-tossing last time. Sounds like the point method is much easier.

Regards

Kai

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