Subj : msg vs jam
To   : Rick Smith
From : Nil Alexandrov
Date : Wed Jan 18 2023 08:42 pm

Hello, Rick!

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

 RS> My uplink is providing me an archive of some older messages that I
 RS> 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.

 RS>  I use jam on my system what kind of options do I have as far as
 RS> 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.

 RS> GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20220504

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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