REM Octet Purge by Simon N Goodwin, December 1997.

First release, version 1.0.

WHAT?

A program to scan a MIME mail file and remove all
octet-stream binary encoded data sections.

REQUIREMENTS

Requires ASL library. Uses 15 point
Helvetica.font if it's available.

WHY?

Written to keep the size of archived YAM mail
manageable, on the basis that binary contents
ought to be archived somewhere else already.

HOW?

Start from Workbench by clicking on the icon.
Select a file to be scanned or CANCEL to quit.
Repeat selection for each file to be purged.

Input file is not modified. A new file on the
same path with the suffix ".purged" is created
containing the original contents except with
the 'application octet-stream' data sections
replaced with the text:

    **** Octet stream deleted from archive.

KNOWN BUGS

No check that the output file name is valid.
No diagnostics if the input file is malformed.


STATUS

Freely distributable; you must include source.

AUTHOR

Simon N Goodwin, simon@studio.woden.com

CREDITS

I am grateful to the following people for their help:

Ben Vost of Amiga Format for introducing me to YAM.
Marcel Beck for writing YAM and providing it for free.
Peter Corlett for configuring AdMail and YAM for me.