In article <nwT4xokI5UYJ091yn@cs.tut.fi>,
s106275@cs.tut.fi (Anssi Saari) wrote:
> Indeed. As fas as I know, SOUP-packages are supposed to start with
> four bytes that tell the length of the following message, not with
> "From ".
That depends. Each message file in a SOUP packet can use a different
storage scheme. You should check the accompanying REPLIES or AREAS
file in the packet to see what scheme is used. The soup12.doc file
states that each line in the AREAS file lists, in this order:
prefix<TAB>area name<TAB>encoding[<TAB>description[<TAB>number]]
The encoding field consists of two or three ASCII characters (usually
alphabetic). The first specifies the format of the message file, the
second specifies the format of the index file, and the optional third
specifies the
kind of area (private or public). The following message file formats are
currently defined (case is significant):
u USENET news articles
m Unix mailbox articles
M Mailbox articles in the MMDF format
b Binary 8-bit clean mail format
B Binary 8-bit clean news format
i Index file only
So it is possible that you get a SOUP message file with messages in
UNIX mailbox format.
Galactus
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