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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Alexander Watson Law
date: 1996-02-22 02:32:48
subject: fucked packet

PE> Hi Alex, the packet you sent me was fucked.  Presumably the 
 PE> first one you sent was also fucked, which was why I didn't
 PE> get the cc: message.  What is wrong is that you have two
 PE> different packets, and have concatenated them together.  ie
 PE> you have:

 PE> Packet A with 2 messages
 PE> Packet B with 1 message

 PE> and then gone copy a.pkt+b.pkt c.pkt

I assure you I haven't done anything like as perverse as use a copy
command. Hmmm... I may have had to manually readdress the .pnt packets, as
I had a blow up and lost the routing cfg... Why should bink do a
concatenation, and does it break anyone elses software?

 PE> creating a c.pkt, which has a proper packet terminator 
 PE> after the second message, so I don't even report a problem 
 PE> with the 3rd message.

 PE> How did you manage to do that?  BFN.  Paul.

Hmmm... Interesting...

...Alex.
(Pagan & Proud)

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