Anyone have a clean and simple explaination for the M= C= D= S= stuff in the 
logs?  I know what the tech reference says, but I'm still unclear.
Heres a sample of a short one, since no mail is coming through again, thought 
I'd grab the small log for an example from my test Rexx script:
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parsing e:\opus\opuslog.bak Last saved @ 11-19-96  18:04:44
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1   # 19 Nov  6:32:09 OPUS 1 messages
2   # 19 Nov  6:32:10 OPUS 1 messages   these are the total msg's
3   # 19 Nov  6:32:11 OPUS 4 messages   unpacked, or 12 msgs in all
4   # 19 Nov  9:36:15 OPUS 4 messages   The numbers on the far left 
5   # 19 Nov 10:16:02 OPUS 1 messages   are just a line count, not 
6   # 19 Nov 16:38:12 OPUS 1 messages   part of the log file.
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1   # 19 Nov  6:32:12 OPUS OOMP A=DR_DEBUG M=1 C=0 D=1 S=0
2   # 19 Nov  6:32:12 OPUS OOMP A=LOC_SALE M=2 C=2 D=0 S=0
3   # 19 Nov  6:32:13 OPUS OOMP A=OS2BBS M=1 C=0 D=1 S=0
4   # 19 Nov  6:32:13 OPUS OOMP A=C_ECHO M=2 C=0 D=2 S=0
5   # 19 Nov  9:36:16 OPUS OOMP A=PITTNET M=4 C=4 D=0 S=0
6   # 19 Nov 10:16:02 OPUS OOMP A=PITTNET M=1 C=1 D=0 S=0
7   # 19 Nov 16:38:12 OPUS OOMP A=LOC_SALE M=1 C=1 D=0 S=0
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 Total Messages   (Unpacked) .........12
 Total M Messages (Copied * packed)...12  (copies * bbs's scanned -1)
 Total C Messages (Copied)............8
 Total D Messages (Done) .............4
 Total S Messages (Skipped) ..........0
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If I unpacked 12 messages, which I did, then why is C= showing 8 messages?
I copied (packed?) 8 messages up for another BBS, so I guess thats what "C=" 
means.  D=4, which means 4 messages were "Done".  What the hell does that 
mean?
I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean dupes, since I didn't have any.  I would 
think that number should be 12, since 12 were tossed (done?)
To save the trouble, heres what the docs say:
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    M={number}  Number of copies made, should be number of new messages
                made times the number of boards you scan to, -1 if you're
                re-packing mail, (because whoever sent it to you has
                already seen it).
    C={number}  Number of messages copied. If you have 30 messages, and 10
                new ones are scanned and copied, the Count will be 10
                messages.
    D={number}  Messages already done, ie, if an area has 400 messages, 10
                new ones arrive, 20 get scanned out, but 390 of that 400
                were already scanned out some time previous.
    S={number}  Number of bad messages skipped.
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It "sort of" makes sense, but the wording is rather unclear to me, and my 
numbers don't seem to jive with what I would expect.  All I really want is 
the number of msg's tossed, and why the M= and the number unpacked aren't 
always the same (although in this packet, they were)  Yesterday, the total 
unpacked didn't = the M= figure, and the total dupes plus the M= didn't add 
up to total unpacked either.  Actually, nothing seemed to add up, other than 
the C= number, which appears to be the number I scan out for another BBS.  
The D= number I haven't a clue what that means.  It appears to mean total 
recieved minus total "Copied", a rather meaningless figure?
Could anyone help me get my head straight in all this?
                                              Jack 
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