PK> Some tools (such as allfix) can work with both, but it al comes
 PK> down to how you CONFIGURE them.

 ML> Does Seal do all these things ?

 PK> No, Seal only handled Message Bases. I think Allfix was the only
 PK> combined one.  

 SA> Seal does both, and can identify itself as Seal 
 ML> Echo, Seal File, or as
 SA> aliases such as Allfix and Areafix.

 ML> Has the areafix standard changed much since 1996'ish ? 

 ML> Sounds like Seal's the way to go. But I wonder why it 
 ML> never got to a full version ie. v1.00. Do you use it ?

Source code to Seal was lost by the author in a hard drive crash after the
0.50 release.  From memory, there is a bug if you do a clean install of
0.50.  When upgrading from a 0.40 install, I believe the needed control
file change is there.  I seem to recall some folks were happier with the
0.40 code over the 0.50 code.  I believe both versions are still
available....

 ML> There's Nef TIC processor and Areafix for Squish 
 ML> (SQAF99A8.ZIP) that sound promising. 

There is also SQAFIX, a tool I've been using (for message echo area
maintenance).  Let's see, EchoFix is another tool I use on rare occations
to clean up my control files....

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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