Wes Newell wrote in a message to Pierre LaMontagne:
 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...
 WN> Change
 WN> sqpack area.dat
 WN> to
 WN> sqpack marea
 WN> in your batch file and it should fix you up. Heck it was monhts
 WN> before I noticed it wasn't working when I upgraded.:-)
Because I carry some thru echos that I read in the MsgEditor, but not into 
the BBS my problem was that i wasnt packing non-bbs areas...
until I found 'sqpack c:\path\to\messages\*.*'
Cheers,
           Rob 
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