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to: mark lewis
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2016-12-04 12:26:08
subject: Re: Error Message

Hi,

On 2016-12-03 20:54:00, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Error Message":

 PH>>> ------------  Sun 2016-12-04, FTools-W32-1.72.0.0
 PH>>> 09:02:42.824  MAINT
 PH>>> 09:02:42.839  Can't read file LastRead.bbs
 PH>>> 09:02:42.839  Exiting with errorlevel 1

 WV>> lastread.bbs is a Hudson message base file. If it isn't there while
 WV>> doing hudson maintenance, FTools quits. If you use the /J option it
 WV>> won't try to do hudson mb maint, and you won't get that error... But
 WV>> strange that the file doesn't exist!?

 ml> i cannot tell, from the log, if the file exists or if it is corrupt which
 ml> can also cause a read error if it is looking for a specific format based on
 ml> file/record size...

This error is displayed if FTools can't open the file or if it can't read
the first 400 bytes...

Bye, Wilfred.


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