PL> I just upgraded to max301 (it's great) a few weeks 
 PL> ago... All is going fairly well except for one thing... 
 PL> My SQPACK says it cannot read the area file... I put 
 PL> the full path to AREA.DAT and MAREA.DAT, neither one 
 PL> worked...
Change
sqpack area.dat
to
sqpack marea
in your batch file and it should fix you up. Heck it was monhts before I 
noticed it wasn't working when I upgraded.:-)
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