On 12 May 2021 at 08:01p, Andy Gorman pondered and said...
 
 AG> + May 12 07:30:44  Process: Merging Nodelists
 AG> + May 12 07:30:44    Merging z1daily
 AG> + May 12 07:30:44  Searching "c:\mystic\nodelists\fidonet\* for archive
 AG> "Z1DAILY"
 AG> + May 12 07:30:44  Searching "c:\mystic\nodelists\fidonet\* for nodelist
 AG> "Z1DAILY"
 AG> + May 12 07:30:44  Searching "c:\mystic\temputil\* for nodelist "Z1DAILY"
 AG> + May 12 07:30:44    Merging metlist
 AG> + May 12 07:30:44  Searching "c:\mystic\nodelists\metronet\* for archive
 AG> "METLIST"
 AG> + May 12 07:30:44  Searching "c:\mystic\nodelists\metronet\* for nodelist
 AG> "METLIST"
 AG> + May 12 07:30:44  Searching "c:\mystic\temputil\* for nodelist "METLIST"
 AG> + May 12 07:30:44  Results: Merged 2 of 2 nodelist(s) in 0.02s

Hmm the earlier stanza info you posted was

    nodefile=c:\mystic\nodelists\nodelist
    nodefile=c:\mystic\nodelists\metlist
    nodefile=c:\mystic\nodelists\z1daily

On that basis I would have thought Mystic would have looked in
c:\mystic\nodelists  to find the files called 'nodelist' and 'metlist' and
'z1daily'   but the above pathing seems to different. Did you update your
nodefile entries?

Do you have unzip installed?

Best, Paul

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