BL>   I am reprocessing my own mail, but I'm not sure if it would work as
 BL> you said. If I had the control.dat in the .rep packet different than
 BL> the one generated by qwk2pkt, then wouldn't your end toss mail into
 BL> the areas set by the .rep control.dat while mine used the qwk2pkt
 BL> control.dat to over-rule the control.dat in the 00000000.pkt I use to
 BL> read my own mail?

I couldn't parse this, you should have used terminology I understand.  What
I would have expected to happen was this:

PKT2QWK reads TENMIN.TBL and puts LOCSYSOP messages into area 5 (e.g.)

QWK2PKT reads the WRONG control.dat and puts area 5 messages into SCIENCE.

You copy your .PKT across, and then it gets reprocessed by PKT2QWK.

PKT2QWK reads TENMIN.TBL and puts SCIENCE messages into area 6!!!  So you
know you have a problem.

You see, the messages in PKT format have the area name written out in full,
so they can't be confused by area numbers.  BFN.

Paul

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