On Feb 19, 1997 at 22:51, Ronald Hoekstra of 2:500/155 sez to Mike Christian:

RH> Hmm... strange... (or rather: not!) I have the same problem. 
Ah! I am *NOT* alone! Misery loves company.

RH> Starting the msged32.exe (Novell DOS 7.0, NDOS 8.0) and scanning 
RH> the message areas, either by hand or from the config file, causes 
RH> the software to show an empty netmailarea. When I leave the area 
RH> ([ESC]) and re-enter the area, the correct number of messages is 
RH> shown. The lastread pointer, however, is lost.
Yup. Pretty much the same here. I was running NDOS, but currently am
running MS DOS 6.22, and occassionally Win4WG3.11. MsgEd must have a
problem scanning 1.msg format netmail areas.


RH> 1. The area is in a *.MSG format
RH> 2. NetMgr is touching the area with renumber, delete and move 
RH> actions
Same here, but I tried it without NetManager - same results.


              **Mike**


 mike.christian{at}nopc.org

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