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/*
Author: Dennis Peterson, Sysop, OS/2 Northwest BBS
FidoNet: 1:343/179
Internet: dpeterso@os2nw.ces.wa.com
Date: Feb. 3, 1995
Version: 3.5
Warranty: Guaranteed to occupy space on your disk
History:
3.1 - first release
3.5 - added abilty to return only messages that contain a pattern
provided on command line.
- added defaults for commandline args
Purpose:
This utility reads QWK-format messages.dat files as found in a QWK
download and converts the messages to ASCII text. If a pattern is
included it will extract only messages that contain that pattern. The
pattern match is case sensitive.
Usage:
1) Unpack a .QWK message packet
2) Look for a file called messages.dat. It's there.
3) Run this REXX program. Use the > character to redirect the output
to a file. That's it! The file will be coverted to a text file.
qwk2text [messages.dat] [pattern] (defaults: messages.dat ---)
If no args are provided messages.dat is assumed and all messages
will be extracted using --- for pattern.
*/