JD>  It behaved like this:
 JD>  Write a netmail w/ a file attached ( using a FQPath), 
 JD> and save with FM, the  editor that comes with FD.

 JD> IOW, I too used a FQPath in FM, and immediately upon 
 JD> restarting FD found that the newly created .pkt did not 
 JD> have the FQPath in it.  The other file did.

 JD> FD therefore is designed to not send out the FQPath.

 JD> Just the same, for example, as Squish in a Bink setup does.

 JD> This is leading me to believe that the "normal" way is 
 JD> for the sender's system to remove the FQPath.

I've recently been sending files as attachments to netmail in Maximus, with
Squish handling the mail packing.  I'm sticking in the full path in the
netmail that I write.  Once squish is done, the netmail viewable on the BBS
shows that the path has been stripped, and squish has properly set the path
for sending out the file.  [And my BinkP sessions are showing the file
properly being sent from my specified location.]

So, yes, Squish (1.11?) / Maximus (3.01?) running under OS/2 is working
this way.  I haven't tested the Linux compiled code at this point in time. 

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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