Okay, folks -- 
Here's the relevant stats on our copy of 1.73a.  
OPUS     EXE    251824 10-06-91   1:38p
As far as I can remember (this was almost five years ago, for Guido's sake) 
-- this copy came out of the archive which was released through SDS_OPUS and 
was picked up by us from our then-SDS feed, Diane Smith (who was 161/7 at the 
time but has since left Fidonet).  
Does anybody have a version which is 
1) a different size
2) a different date/time stamp
It ought to be relatively simple to run a utility like file compare with the 
binary switch on to see if your executable is different from somebody else's 
executable, even if they are the same size and time/date stamp.  
Look, guys and gals, 1.73a was a drop-in replacement upgrade, not a 'slime 
patch' like the 1.03x situation.  If there had been some sort of patch-job, 
then yeah, I could see how you could get weird variations, but if you are 
replacing the whole damn exectuable, where are the variations supposed to 
come from?  
1) your unpacker screws up
2) somebody else unpacked the archive and repacked it, and their packer 
screwed up
3) damage
4) sabotage
How likely are any of these possibilites?  No. 3 I would expect a lot, the 
others seem not very likely.
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