mark lewis wrote to August Abolins <=-
yes, those are bundles... the point is that doing all that is not
really needed in today's FTN world... especially with binkp and
mailers having the ability to compress during send in the
same way that web servers do...
Re: Re: Create message bases
By: Marceline Jones to KAI RICHTER on Tue Mar 23 2021 23:45:00
Unzipping a PKT and viewing the *.msg file is easier.
who, in their right minds, is archiving PKTs into bundles in this day
in age? :smh:
More people would use GoldED+ if it was packaged better.
that's highly doubtful in today's world... if it were the case,
there'd have been a lot more people talking about it and there simply
are not and have not been, other than some sysops, since Odinn
Sorensen passed from this realm...
More people would use GoldED+ if it was packaged better.
that's highly doubtful in today's world... if it were the case,I guarantee you that more people would use it (at least 1 more).
there'd have been a lot more people talking about it and there
simply are not and have not been, other than some sysops, since
Odinn Sorensen passed from this realm...
A packet inspector will tell me where "FF9F02C1.frG" is destined easier than manually inspecting messages or using an hex editor.
A packet inspector will tell me where "FF9F02C1.frG" is destined easier
than manually inspecting messages or using an hex editor.
that's a bundle, not a packet... depending on the mailer/tosser combination, the file name of the bundle will tell you what system it
is destined for... some might use simple hex notation for the net/node while others are a little more complicated using 2s complement or
inverse 2s complement to represent the net/node destination... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%27s_complement
Marceline Jones wrote to MARK LEWIS <=-
Well I want a packet inspector so I can check messages are
created and destined properly. This feature is probably out
of scope because GoldED is just a message editor.
Quoting Sean Dennis to Marceline Jones <=-
I've used InspectA for well over twenty years for packet inspecting
and recommend it.
Great! Where do I find to download?
Hello Mauro,
Tuesday April 06 2021 10:58, you wrote to me:
Great! Where do I find to download?
On my BBS. Look for INSP110D.ZIP in BBS.FidoUtils; this is the DOS version.
You will also need the "unlimited shareware" key that was released by the author to remove the shareware nag and delay. That file is I110-KEY.ZIP in BBS.Utils.
If you have any issues, let me know.
Look for INSP110D.ZIP in BBS.FidoUtils; this is the DOS version.
You will also need the "unlimited shareware" key that was released by
the author to remove the shareware nag and delay. That file is I110-KEY.ZIP in BBS.Utils.
If you have any issues, let me know.
More people would use InspectA if it was packaged better.
I guarantee you that more people would use it (at least 1 more).
Hello Sean!
06 Apr 21, Sean Dennis wrote to Mauro Veiga:
Look for INSP110D.ZIP in BBS.FidoUtils; this is the DOS version.
You will also need the "unlimited shareware" key that was
released by the author to remove the shareware nag and delay.
That file is I110-KEY.ZIP in BBS.Utils.
If you have any issues, let me know.
Is there any reason why the key is not included with the build? Is it
due to some elitist programmer contempt for non technical end users?
More people would use InspectA if it was packaged better.
I guarantee you that more people would use it (at least 1 more).
Sorry, couldn't resist... >:-)
What am i doing? This is offtopic too. If you would like to support
the use of packet inspectors please go to a matching echoarea.
Kai Richter wrote to Sean Dennis <=-
Is there any reason why the key is not included with the
build? Is it due to some elitist programmer contempt for
non technical end users?
What am i doing? This is offtopic too. If you would like to
support the use of packet inspectors please go to a
matching echoarea.
The author, David Nugent (who also wrote the BNU FOSSIL driver, I believe), was pissed that so many people used his program and never registered it. I have seen the original message where he told people
off and then said he was leaving the BBS scene forever.
On 2021-04-07 00:03:02, Sean Dennis (1:18/200) wrote to Kai Richter:
The author, David Nugent (who also wrote the BNU FOSSIL driver, I
believe), was pissed that so many people used his program and
never registered it. I have seen the original message where he
told people off and then said he was leaving the BBS scene
forever.
PKT inspection was always an extremely niche feature, though. The
number of sysops who actually needed specialised software to look at
PKTs on a regular basis would've only been in the hundreds at best. So
his target audience was always going to be pretty small from the
start, and it's telling that (to my knowledge) nobody's written a
similar program just to do that one thing, without the file manager
part. There just wasn't the demand for it.
I'm not sure InspectA had much else going for it. As a file manager it
was a bit mediocre. I suspect that was the main reason more people
didn't pay for it.
What am i doing? This is offtopic too.
Mauro is a user on my BBS and we'll talk shop there.
If you want to talk about InspectA, I invite you to do so in
BBS_CARNIVAL
There is another tool that may well do similar - pktview that I obtained from the Husky project and this own also works under Linux.
Re: Create message bases
By: Vincent Coen to andrew clarke on Thu Apr 08 2021 02:37 pm
There is another tool that may well do similar - pktview that I
obtained from the Husky project and this own also works under
Linux.
They can still be found around and about. pktview is a bash script and
the husky project also has pktinfo. It works well.
The Synchronet project has pktdump to look at .pkt files as well as
fmsgdump to look at *.msg files. There is a windows download of
pktdump on Vertrauen if anyone needs something like that.
I'm not sure InspectA had much else going for it. As a file manager
it was a bit mediocre. I suspect that was the main reason more people
didn't pay for it.
There is another tool that may well do similar - pktview that I obtained from the Husky project and this own also works under Linux.
It will display the content of a packet that may have one or more messages.
It is in husty-master/misc. Cannot currently find the source code for
it but it is here some where as I recompiled it for Linux as x64.
There is another tool that may well do similar - pktview that I
obtained from the Husky project and this own also works under
Linux.
They can still be found around and about. pktview is a bash script and
the husky project also has pktinfo. It works well.
FWIW pktview is a Perl script.
WRT pktinfo, I worked on C code recently and made some improvements, but its weakness is it heavily relies on HPT's packet parsing functions. A broken packet will tend to make pktinfo abort execution (like HPT would) instead of just displaying what information it can. There's not really an easy way I can fix that without potentially breaking something in HPT, so it will have to do.
I haven't looked at pktview in a long time but I can't seem to get it
to read a packet currently. How does one use pktview?
# This script reads PKT from stdin and prints it's contents in human-readabe form into stdout
# options:
# -v verbose
# -s print SEEN-BY, PATH and PTH kludges
# -r print RFC-* kludges
# -p print PID and TID kludges
# -h print usage information
pktview -vsrp < 6034b1c0.pkt
I haven't looked at pktview in a long time but I can't seem to get it
to read a packet currently. How does one use pktview?
Kai wrote (2021-03-14):
I know how open source works.
The typical mentality is "you're on your own".
True, because that is the main purpose of open source, to give YOU the
possibilty to do it on your own.
open source bullshit bingo
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