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- REM Octet Purge by Simon N Goodwin, December 1997.
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- First release, version 1.0.
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- WHAT?
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- A program to scan a MIME mail file and remove all
- octet-stream binary encoded data sections.
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- REQUIREMENTS
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- Requires ASL library. Uses 15 point
- Helvetica.font if it's available.
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- WHY?
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- Written to keep the size of archived YAM mail
- manageable, on the basis that binary contents
- ought to be archived somewhere else already.
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- HOW?
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- Start from Workbench by clicking on the icon.
- Select a file to be scanned or CANCEL to quit.
- Repeat selection for each file to be purged.
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- Input file is not modified. A new file on the
- same path with the suffix ".purged" is created
- containing the original contents except with
- the 'application octet-stream' data sections
- replaced with the text:
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- **** Octet stream deleted from archive.
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- KNOWN BUGS
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- No check that the output file name is valid.
- No diagnostics if the input file is malformed.
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- STATUS
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- Freely distributable; you must include source.
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- AUTHOR
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- Simon N Goodwin, simon@studio.woden.com
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- CREDITS
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- I am grateful to the following people for their help:
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- Ben Vost of Amiga Format for introducing me to YAM.
- Marcel Beck for writing YAM and providing it for free.
- Peter Corlett for configuring AdMail and YAM for me.
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