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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Frank Malcolm
date: 1995-07-12 19:11:04
subject: own up

Hi, Paul.

PE> FM> problem with PKT2QWK to reappear and guess what - it hasn't. However
PE> FM> there's been at least a couple of new version since then so perhaps
PE> it's
PE> FM> fixed. Maybe I'll stop saving the inbound.

PE> No!!!  Don't do that.  Keep ONE DAY's inbound mail.  It only takes

Yes, that's what I keep. After a successful download the previous saved
stuff is deleted, the directory removed and recreated (to avoid the
problem of files being in a different order and thus causing the problem
to not reappear on the rerun, which I think was happening when I had
problems before), then all the inbound is copied. After creating the QWK
I also save that.

PE> up 100k or something, I'll loan you a 360k floppy if you can't
PE> afford one and you can make room for the inbound mail.  The inbound

Thanks, Paul, I think I'll manage. :-)

PE> mail means if something goes wrong, you can simply rerun the
PE> process to get your mail back instead of having to ask in here if
PE> you can get your old packets back.  I don't have your old packets
PE> so I can't give them back to you.  Same as Dave Hatch won't give
PE> me back the ones for 3:711/934.  BFN.  Paul.

OK, I'll keep it as it is.

Regards, FIM.

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