ac> OK, it works, albeit slowly.  New problems though.  The
 ac> SEEN-BY and PATH lines are stripped during a Copy action,
 ac> which is probably not suitable to my purposes, and also...

isn't there a MOVE option? it may strip things, too... dunno... maybe tell
it that the area is not an echo? can you look and see if it does clean up
extraneous stuff (ie: control lines) from messages?

 ac> Wilfried Brinkmann's PATCH.EXE from ARTFIX09.ZIP [*] refuses
 ac> to apply Y2K patches to NETMGR.EXE (under WinXP), saying the
 ac> file sizes are different, even after decompressing with
 ac> PKLITE.  When I comment-out the SIZE line from NETMGR.PSC, it
 ac> complains it can't seek to offset 0x238E3 (145635) even though
 ac> the file size is 180214 bytes.  I just tried it on my Win98
 ac> box and had the same problem.  A nodelist + web search for Mr
 ac> Brinkmann seems to lead nowhere.  :-(

IIRC, i can make available a copy of the patched and unpatched versions...
i have to check to see what i'm running...

[time passes]

looks like i do have the above unpatched file... they patched fine on my
win98 box... "they" as in both DOS and OS/2 versions...


=== unpatched ===

NETMGR  .EXE    180214 11/17/96 15:08
NETMGRP .EXE    145941 11/17/96 15:08


=== patched ===

WHATSNEW.100     30899 11/17/96 15:08
GATE    .CFG      3592 01/05/96 10:35
NETMGR  .CFG      2680 10/29/03 13:43
NETMGR  .COM      1273 01/01/00 15:05
FILE_ID .DIZ       170 11/17/96 15:08
NETMGR  .DOC     88762 11/17/96 15:08
NETMGRP .EXE    145941 11/17/96 15:08
NETMGR  .OVL    180214 11/17/96 15:08


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