13 Dec 15 14:08, you wrote to me:

 JS>>> If I manually unzip the .PKT files then call HPT the .PKT files
 JS>>> toss fine. ZIP is the agreed upon archiver.

 ml>> *how* is your link zipping them? what is their zip command in their
 ml>> tosser? what are the first 8 bytes (in hex please) of the file they
 ml>> are sending you?

 JS>   I will ask Janis and get back to you.

you didn't say it was janis' system that was sending to you ;)

 JS>>> I have tried both the internal Unzip support as well as an
 JS>>> external Unzip program to no avail.

 JS> My command lines appear to be the very close to yours:

 JS> Unpack "unzip -joLqq $a -d $p" 0 504b0304
 JS> Pack   zip "zip -9 -jgq $a $f"

the devil is in the details... it doesn't take much to ruin a good
recipe... i don't know what the differences are right off hand but you
might want to try those i posted... they came default with my self-built
installation when i generated my initial config with "fidoInst for
bash by Zano" version 0.14 to get me started... i don't specifically
recall having changed those but i might have...

 ml>> i should note that this system connects to only one other system and
 ml>> no packer is defined for that system so we are sending raw PKTs to
 ml>> each other... this day in time, there's no real reason to be bundling
 ml>> up PKTs... especially when the available protocols can compress on
 ml>> the fly during transmission just like a web server...

 JS> We have already agreed to use uncompressed PKT's when tranfering mail
 JS> in the future.

+1

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