Sean Rima wrote to All:

SR> I used pktinfo and this is the result
SR> 
SR> pktinfo -h -t fido/inbound/00000000.bad
SR> PktInfo/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2020-04-15
SR> 
SR> Pkt-Name:     fido/inbound/00000000.bad
SR> OrigAddr:     2:263/1.2
SR> DestAddr:     2:263/1.0
SR> pkt created:  Tue Jun 30 17:05:53 2020
SR> pkt Password:
SR> prodCode:     0100
SR> prodRevision  0.0
SR> ----------------------------------------
SR> A 17:17:05   There are 112716 bytes of unknown data at the end of pkt 
SR> file!

That looks like a corrupt .pkt file.

SR> At this stage I am stumped. I know it maybe something small.

Probably, if you can determine why it's corrupt.

Can that packet be tossed successfully by a different tosser?

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

... Logic and practical information do not seem to apply here.

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