SA> [...]

 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 Echo, Seal File, or as
 SA> aliases such as Allfix and Areafix.

Has the areafix standard changed much since 1996'ish ? 

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

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

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