Sean,

  Here is what I have in Xenophobe BBS as a files.bbs sturcture:

FILENAME:12
SPACE
SIZE:9
SPACE
SPACE
DATE:8 MM/DD/YY
SPACE
SPACE
DESCRIPTION:46

80 Characters per line

  Now you want to append SPACE + next line (trim'd) up to 1024 characters or
next file, right?

Questions:

  What if the files.bbs is the format that contains long description line 2 etc
 starts on character position 2??

  What if the files.bbs follows the previous example, but uses | on character
position 2?

  What BBS package are you running? PCB?

  I ask the last, for the ability of larger file sizes and filenames.

Ozz

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