Re: File formats?

From: Jerry McBride (mcbrides@erols.com)
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:07:07 -0400

>In article </LDK08D5w+kf092yn@erols.com>,
>mcbrides@erols.com (Jerry McBride) wrote:
>> I was curious. Is the format for yarn database and soup packets available
>> somewhere? I thought, maybe, I'd have a whack at writing a java newsreader (ahla
>> Yarn/Java) for everyone...
>
>The SOUP message format is documented in the file SOUP12.DOC which should
>have come with your Yarn ZIP file. Otherwise, search for "soup12.doc"
>in any search engine.

I have the soup12.doc file mentioned. It details about all I need to know in
handling soup mail packets...

>Yarn's mail folder format is the same as the 'clean binary' format
>defined in the SOUP specification, but with the lower and upper word
>reversed.
>
>I don't know if the news database format is documented anywhere..

After picking up the soup.doc, I find I won't need the yarn spec after all.
Thanks for timely post however.

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