RL>Word7 handled it, but I still want to be able to read what is
RL>there using OLX.
RL>GE>Once unzipped, what do you see?...
RL>Uh, the monitor?
RL>I'm missing the ###.NDX files.
That's very strange.  I took a QWK packet and deleted everything
from inside it except CONTROL.DAT and MESSAGES.DAT.
SLMR 2.1a and OLX 2.1 Test Drive  both unzipped the QWK's 2 files,
and began: "Scanning messages: Rebuilding index files: ....".
Shelled to DOS & found those rebuilt NDX files in the "work" directory.
Maybe the RBBS door isn't 100% QWK compatible, and is not storing the
correct info in the 128 byte header of each message?
RL>Actually, what I need is some way to write the ndx stuff.  As soon as I
RL>can figure it out, the rest should be smiple. 
Message header arrangement: (Have fun)
Startbyte  Length
    1       1   Message status flag (unsigned character)
    2       7   Message number (in ASCII)
    9       8   Date (mm-dd-yy, in ASCII)
   17       5   Time (24 hour hh:mm, in ASCII)
   22      25   To (uppercase, left justified)
   47      25   From (uppercase, left justified)
   72      25   Subject of message (mixed case)
   97      12   Password (space filled)
  109       8   Reference message number (ASCII)
  117       6   Num of 128-byte blocks in msg, incl header (ASCII)
  123       1   Flag (ASCII 225 = active; 226 = to be killed)
  124       2   Conference number (unsigned word)
  126       2   Logical msg # in the current packet (unsigned word)
  128       1   '*' = network tag-line present; ' '= there isn't one
 * SLMR 2.1a * And this is the machine that goes PING!
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