RM> somewhat stunned by the size of the msg base in avtech.... 
 RM> not bad...

Some sysops do it properly.  Or at least one of them does.

 RM> i got an "Error compressing msgs" msg when trying to pack 
 RM> browsed mail into qwk for a quick dnload. Problem with zip 
 RM> packer?

Buggered if I know what happened!  Brenton downloaded stuff 2 hours before
you, and I didn't touch anything.  The Maximus log says that the program
wasn't found?!  (ie either "fh" or "zip".  I am sure
people after you will be able to download stuff as well.  Did you see how
many messages were packed?  There is a limit of 6 meg for the uncompressed
messages and compressed messages, and if you got all of Aust_AVTech, you
wouldn't be able to download, I suspect.  Another possibility is using the
browser function instead of the normal offline reader.  Could you try going
to the normal offline reader, and tagging PUBLIC_DOMAIN, and try a
download.  If that works, try doing the browse/qwk of another small area,
e.g. BLAKES_7.  I will report back on the next person to log on's success. 
BFN.

Paul

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