PE>> all the doco, and then the system hung.  And it seems that there must
 PE>> have been a problem with lazy write, because that last 2 hours work
 PE>> was

 DM>  Same as write-back caching ??? It should still have updated the
 DM>  physical HDD contents, whilst retaing the same info in cache for
 DM>  faster access.

Should is the operative word.

 DM>> Is there any way of retrieving personal mail, not private mail,
 DM>> that has been already sent to me ? I had a problem with TPOINT,
 DM>> and lost a mail packet from around 18th July.

 PE>> Well if you tell me the last message you received in AUST_AVTECH, and
 PE>> the first one you received, I can put the ones in between into a text
 PE>> file.  So can anyone else here who has the echos you want.  Which
 PE>> echos do you want? BFN.

 DM>  AUST_AVTECH, LOC_USER & LOC SYSOP. I cannot find any refernce to
 DM>  mesage numbers, as all the QWK packets have messages starting
 DM>  from 1 to whatever.

 DM>  I can only give you a date range, 17th through 21st July.

None in that date range in LOCSYSOP or LOCUSER.  See attached file
dieter.txt for AUST_AVTECH messages in that range.

 DM>  BTW, anyone been posting in ISO_C lately ? - I haven't seen any
 DM>  messages in there for quite a while. Since June.

No.  Don't knock it either.  It's one of the few echos I can go into
without cringing.  BFN.

Paul

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