CompuServe Messages

I have a number of scripts I use in conjunction with CEDPro. Some are for reading Usenet messages, including 'keepmsg', 'delmsg', 'kill' (for obnoxious threads or people), 'compose', 'reply', 'send', etc. 'keepmsg' was particularly interesting, since it would ask me for a filename (via FR) for ordinary postings, but would recognize sources and binaries, and would parse the headers to get a complete path and filename. It would then create the parts of the path required, if they weren't present, and save the file automatically, as well as post a reminder to me that would come up the next time I read my mail. Other CEDPro stuff looks up autodocs, Arexx commands, and so on. The basis for that one was from a CBM employee, but was extensively rewritten. I have automatic compression scripts, one of which you mentioned (ZooAll), and one that does auto-extraction of all archived files in a directory, calling the appropriate decompression program based on filename suffix. I have a 'man.rexx' that does lookups for program docs, a copy that only copies newer dated files to a dir with same named files in it, a 'cmpall.rexx' that will compare all files in the current with all files in the specified directory. This is for testing the results of my tape backup/restore programs. Backup is handled by a script that dumps all my data to tape in a specific order, and broken down into separate tape files for ease of recovery of smaller chunks, though now that I have selective restore, I will have to rethink the breakdown. I even have a 'complete' BBS written in ARExx, that was used in conjunction with keith Young's modified AUX: handler, and incorporated usernames/passwords, mail, chat, public messages, bulletins, and up/downloading. The 'complete' is in quotes because of the up/downloading. It was not handled by a protocol, but instead was limited to ASCII send/recieve, binary files being handled by uuencode/uudecode. Oh, and trusted users had direct access to the CLI that the BBS used, and it had an 'expert' mode. [cont…]