Hello Phil,

 MvdV>> How can a program that is never called be deficient?

 > I was more or less just wondering if its being called and then
 > exiting because its encoutering something it didn't expect...

No, it doesn't.

 > Why FMail wouldn't call it I don't understand...

Apparently because it calls it in the same piece of code that calls the
decompression programme and for *.PKT it does not call the decompression
programme...

 > I get *.PKT bundles here many times a day, for a few years,
 > and there is absolutely no problem with them... fmail does
 > exactly what it's supposed to do.

You don't use the pre/post compression hook to call an external programme
between decompressing and tossing.

 MvdV>> I wrote Marena during the CSO wars over ten years ago. At that time
 > 
 MvdV>> The CSO wars are over, the broken echos have been relinked, but I
 MvdV>> still use Marena. I find it useful for crosslinking echos with
 MvdV>> different names and for getting the same echo with multiple links
 MvdV>> without causing dupe loops.

 > Well... if the initial need for it is gone,

A new need came into being.

 > question is can you find something else that will do what you still
 > find useful in it?  Despite the claim that it can't be something
 > with the software, some how, some way, it has to be... the
 > fact that FMail will work with *.PKT on everybody elses
 > system, and not yours, seems to support that.  I don't see
 > where the problem with it in FMail lays.

Fmail works fine as long as you do not use the post/preprocessor function.
The reason I am the only one hat has this problem is probably that I am the
only one using this function.

Yes, I am aware that I want something that is somewhat exotic.

I am sure it could be fixed quit easely by someone who has the source of
Famail. But the only one who has is Folkert and he stopped support...

So the problem with Fmail is that it is abandonware.

Cheers, Michiel

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