I've been working on my system lately, and something seems to have started 
happening, as of today.

 Below is a clip from my system logs created from when I was processing some 
newly hatched files from my Fido uplink: 
----------  Mon 18 Nov 2, ALLFIX v5.13.004 22-May-99 10:06
# 05:07:07  Command : File
# 05:07:07  Scanning Internet spool file
# 05:07:07  Purging Internet spool file
! 05:07:07  Msg  Unknown fileecho: UBBSDOS
! 05:07:07  Msg  Auto-adding   : UBBSDOS
# 05:07:07  Msg  Using Comment : U���
# 05:07:07  Msg  Using Group   : 4 defaults
# 05:07:07  Msg  Uplink        : 1:10/3
# 05:07:07  Msg  Destdir       : ��~
W��xW��F�F
�~�~
W蜉F��V��~
W�



�tC�~
# 05:07:07  Msg  Sending announcement to : 885:18175/32778.13118
# 05:07:07  Msg  Sending announcement to : 894:36073/15104.64070
# 05:07:07  Msg  Sending announcement to : 2629:53809/22075.31996
# 05:07:07  Msg  Sending announcement to : 2686:30464/59651.439
# 05:07:07  Msg  Sending announcement to : 3197:63491/35366.14853
# 05:07:07  Msg  Sending announcement to : 3664:59880/50177.29374
              --====-
# 05:07:08  Msg  Sending announcement to : 63:32256/1513.32256
# 05:07:08  Msg  Sending announcement to : 312:13/5512
# 05:07:08  Msg  Sending announcement to : 32512:5395/47616.58
! 05:07:08  Invalid pointer operation, program aborted.
! 05:07:08  Error address : 09AC:7DE1



Has anyone encountered this problem before?  

NONE of those AKAs are valid here, the only AKA I currently have is in Zone 1 
Fido.


Any assistance/insight would be _immensely_ appreciated. :) 

Sincerely, 
Hawk (Rob Ireland)  E-Mail rocaddict{at}rogers.com
Fidonet:   1:2401/0 (NC/NEC/Treasurer)
Official Renegade BBS FAQ author

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