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NAME

FTN::Packet - Reading or writing Fidonet Technology Networks (FTN) packets.

VERSION

VERSION 0.13

DESCRIPTION

FTN::Packet is a Perl extension for reading or writing Fidonet Technology Networks (FTN) packets.

EXPORT

The following functions are available in this module: read_ftn_packet(), write_ftn_packet().

FUNCTIONS

read_ftn_packet

Syntax: $messages = read_ftn_packet(*PKT);

Read a Fidonet/FTN packet. Returns the messages in the packet as a reference to an array of hash references, which can be read as follows:

    $message_ref = pop(@{$messages});
    $msg_area = ${$message_ref}->('area');
    $msg_date = ${$message_ref}->('ftscdate');
    $msg_tonode = ${$message_ref}->('tonode');
    $msg_from = ${$message_ref}->('from');
    $msg_body = ${$message_ref}->('to');
    $msg_subj = ${$message_ref}->('subj');
    $msg_msgid = ${$message_ref}->('msgid');
    $msg_replyid = ${$message_ref}->('replyid');
    $msg_body = ${$message_ref}->('body');
    $msg_ctrl = ${$message_ref}->('ctrlinfo');

write_ftn_packet

Syntax: write_ftn_packet($OutDir, \%packet_info, \@messages);

Create a Fidonet/FTN packet, where: $OutDir is the directory where the packet is to be created \%packet_info is a reference to a hash containing the packet header \@messages is reference to an array of references to hashes containing the messages.

EXAMPLES

  use FTN:Packet;
  To be added...

AUTHORS

Robert James Clay, jame@rocasa.us

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests via the web interface at https://github.com/jame/ftn-packet/issues. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

Note that you can also report any bugs or feature requests to bug-ftn-packet at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=FTN-Packet; however, the FTN-Packet Issue tracker is preferred.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc FTN::Packet

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Code for the read_ftn_packet function was initially derived from the newmsgs subroutine in the set of scripts for reading FTN packets (pkt2txt.pl, pkt2xml.pl, etc) by Russ Johnson mailto:airneil@users.sf.net and Robert James Clay mailto:jame@rocasa.us available at the http://ftnpl.sourceforge.net] project site. Initial code for the write_ftn_packet function was derived from the bbs2pkt.pl of v0.1 of the bbsdbpl scripts, also at the SourceForge project.

SEE ALSO

 L<perl(1)>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2001-2011 Robert James Clay, all rights reserved. Copyright 2001-2003 Russ Johnson, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.