FM> What does PKT2QWK (and PKTJOIN) do if you run out of disk space?

Its more likely happening as you unpack the PKTs, the unarchiver
just not having enough space and binning some of the component PKTs,
obviously normally the largest ones. Brentons BAT file wont say a word.

FM> I *think* at least PKT2QWK just cleans up nicely but reports no message.

FM> After my enforced off-line for a week I got
FM> a 720k packet, which ended up as a 220k QWK.

Yeah, thats classic symptoms, the QWK far too small. But not zero because
SOME of the PKTs within the archived files of PKTs did get extracted and used.

FM> I was low on disk space, and reckon it
FM> probably reached nil during the batch file.

Yep, it wont say a word, just bin great swags of the mail silently.

FM> Fortunately I was half awake, so deleted some crap and
FM> ran the unpacking & conversion again - lo and behold, a
FM> six hundred and something k QWK (QWKs are smaller than PKTs).

Mine arent, but I still use a rather older PKT2QWK
which retains the kludge lines except for the SEEN-BYs.

FM> But there were no error messages out of either prog.

And Brentons BAT file completely ignores the
error result codes from the unarchiver anyway.

FM> I think it would have been PKT2QWK which hit the no disk space limit.

I still think the unarchiver is more likely, mainly because you did get
some mail in the resulting QWK. With the biggest PKTs just being discarded
as they use up all free space as it gets them out of the archived PKTs.

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