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Ok folks, this is an very early beta of a small program for peeking at
.PKT's that I wrote to learn a bit about Fidonet. I got the inspiration
from a program named XPkt that came through SAN (I believe) a while ago, it
seemed neat but I thought that it could be done better by using Intuition
for the display. To make a boring story short I decided to finally tear
myself away from MessyDos-programming and learn how to program Intuition.
(Right now I'm studying to become an computertechnician, well actually
we're called engineers in Sweden but I doubt that would hold in the rest of
Europe, and the subject of the year is, yes you guessed it, good ol'
MS-DOS.)
The purpose of this release is to get some feedback on the program, this
program is InputWare. If you use it you must give the author some feedback.
Progress on the program will probably be slow, but I will take each
suggestion into consideration.
Enough beating around the bush, let's talk about the program! ;-)
GPkt is meant for the purpose of examining .PKT's during the development of
a FidoNet-compatible mailprocessor. Just feed it your .PKT, several
flavours supported, and it will open a nice window and display some
relevant information that is found in the header.
Supported packettypes are FTS-0001, FSC-0039, FSC-0045 and FSC-0048. If no
zonenumber is provided in a FTS-0001-packet it will show up as zero. (I.e.
- I just sprintf() whatever is found there into a string.)
Information shown is:
FTS-0001, FSC-0039, FSC-0045, FSC-0048
======================================
- Senders address (full 4D/5D where relevant)
- Destination address (full 4D/5D where relevant)
- Password (if any, NONE if none :-) )
- Software used to create the packet. The string is in the form "Name
Major revision.Minor revision (ID-number)". No minor-number will be
shown if it is a FTS-0001 or FSC-0045 packet.
The information is taken from FTSCPROD.047 (hardcoded) which may
reside in the same directory as the packet or Mail:. If it is not
found, the software will be called "Unknown".
FTS-0001, FSC-0039, FSC-0048
============================
- Creation date
FSC-0039, FSC-0048
==================
- Capability word in hex
Start it from the CLI with a packet as an argument or doubleclick it on the
Workbench, the icon provided may be replaced as soon as you wish. (Hey,
isn't it greeeaat looking! ;-) ) Arguments may be passed via extended
select on the WB, only one argument recognized. If no argument is provided
a file-requester will pop up.
Oh, btw, GPkt requires 2.0. It will probably blow if started from the CLI
on anything lesser but exit gracefully if started from WB, Why? Just lazy
me who uses PutStr() in main() but nosuch in wbmain().
Known deficencies:
- If "Load" is chosen in "Project" and the filereq. is canceled the
packet is still unloaded. (Well, actually it's unloaded before the
filerequester is called. Sorry 'bout that.)
I may be reached on FidoNet as Andreas Johansson on 2:203/511.1. You may also
reach me by logging on to my boss, Hogen BBS (2:203/511, +46-524-40883) and
leave a private message.
Happy using GPkt!