mbtool

Fido message base tool (Jam/Squish/MSG)

This tool allows to convert message bases between supported formats with sorting (honoring TZUTC kludge) and deduplication.

It is based on skMHL library and can be built with Free Pascal compiler.

usage

mbtool.exe -src -dst [-deftz ] [-sort] [-dedup]

examples

convert JAM base to Squish base and skip dupe messages

mbtool.exe -src Jc:\fido\msgbase\jam\ruftndev -dst Sc:\fido\msgbase\squish\ruftndev -dedup

convert JAM base to Squish base and sort it, using UTC+0300 for messages without TZUTC kludge

mbtool.exe -src Jc:\fido\msgbase\jam\r50sysop -dst Sc:\fido\msgbase\squish\r50sysop -deftz 0300 -sort

convert JAM base to Squish base and sort it, using UTC-0500 for messages without TZUTC kludge, and remove dupe messages

mbtool.exe -src Jc:\fido\msgbase\jam\enetsys -dst Sc:\fido\msgbase\squish\enetsys -deftz -0500 -sort -dedup

convert MSG (Opus) base to JAM base and sort it

mbtool.exe -src Mc:\fido\msgbase\msg\netmail -dst Jc:\fido\msgbase\jam\netmail -sort