PE>> Why did you send me this message about 5 times, in various
 PE>> stages of construction?

 FM> I don't bloody well know, Paul! I noticed it after the packet had gone
 FM> ('cos I copy everything sent back into my incoming), but I'm damned if I
 FM> know how it happened. Certainly I did revisit that message several
 FM> times, but I don't know why what happened, happened.

One of the mysteries of the West, along with why even the most
ignorant of Westerners can say "hello" in about 50 different
languages.

 PE> FM>> I sent a message to Areafix with 2 requests in it; %LIST and
 PE> FM>> %QUERY. I was expecting to get back the list of all messages areas
 PE> FM>> in two forms
 PE>> -
 PE> FM>> as a file and as a message. The file came back today, with 749
 PE> FM>> areas listed.

 PE>> Yep, and the file was attached to a message, the blank one.  The
 PE>> subject of the blank message was the file name.  That's how file
 PE>> attaches work.

 FM> Well where was the file attached to the message? The TinyPoint setup
 FM> creates an ATTACH directory off the OLX directory, but it wasn't in
 FM> there. *I* think the file I got was in response to my %LIST query (it
 FM> says it sends it back as a file, how is it "attached" to
the message?)

There is a flag in the header which says "file attach", and the
subject of the message is the file name.  This is documented
in FTS-1 (what, you mean you haven't finished reading all the
FTS and FSC specs?).

 PE>> Eh?  Don't ask me how to run a brain-dead OLR.  Like I say,
 PE>> POINT.* and MINP_DOS.* are available for FREQ from here.
 PE>> Plenty of help on how to install and use them too.  PPOINT
 PE>> is here too.  I'd suggest trying MINP_DOS.*, as if you are
 PE>> happy with that, it's all freeware stuff.  BFN.  Paul.

 FM> Paul, I need to run an OLR because of the other systems I access. I very
 FM> much prefer to be able to do the same thing (in this case, run the same
 FM> OLR) with everything.

How many other systems are there?  See if you can point off
them too.  And any that you can't, you can use PKT2QWK on
*them* (it works both ways).  Presumably you get most of
your mail from here?  BFN.  Paul.
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