* In a message originally to Shurato, Daniel Path said:

 > Hello Shurato,

 > 15 Dec 23 15:26, you wrote to apam:

 >  ap> >> I'm not sure what I need to do, but I'd like for .msg files to be
 >  ap>> processed
 >  ap> >> with carriage returns, and they have something else (I don't know
 >  ap> >> what)
 >  ap>> I'd
 >  ap> >> guess.  I need them to look like normal text files with a command
 >  ap> >> line
 >  ap>> if
 >  ap> >> possible.

 >  ap>> I think .msg has carriage returns, just not linefeeds, so windows
 >  ap>> would put it  all on one line in notepad.

 >  ap>> You'd want to replace '\r' with '\r\n' (or byte 0x0D with 0x0D 0x0A)
 >  ap>> I don't  know of a program that does this, but it would be fairly
 >  ap>> easy to write one.

 >  S> I tried that with xchange, and couldn't find a carriage return in the
 >  S> file. Best would be a utility to convert fidonet message files into a
 >  S> readable text file. It looks like there's more binary data in there
 >  S> than I know what to do with. My intent is to parse out the IBBS1LINE
 >  S> messages and put them in a file to display to users (last 10 or so).
 >  S> I'm pretty sure I can handle the script, but I don't have the
 >  S> slightest clue how to convert data.

 > the data is encoded with ROT47. it's easy to implement an encoder/decoder.
 > https://rot47.net/

Right, I need to convert the messages into a text file first.

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