LA>    Note: All of the "G:\Desktop" entries are followed by 246
LA> nulls. 
LA>    Add the 10 bytes of the string that preceeds those 246 nulls and 
LA>    you get 256 bytes, or 16 paragraphs.

WH> Which just happens to be the value of _MAXPATH in the toolkit headers,
  > for one thing.

WH> In another msg. you refer to the X, 1, 2, 3 sequences.  If you make
  > several archives you will find that the 1 -3 entries appear to be a
  > used to refer to 3 'buckets' where a new archive replaces the oldest
  > (3) one and becomes 1 while the remaining 'buckets' (1 and 2) are
  > incremented.  Sort of a first-in/first-out stack of 3.  Note: I may be
  > bass-ackwards on the order.  I say 1 is the newest but it may really be
  > 3; I haven't messed with this in a LONG time.


   Just did a backup and it is indeed a FIFO arrangement:  2 - 1 - 3 
   became 3 - 2 - 1, the oldest entry being overwritten and the 
   others being renumbered. Simple enough.

   Working on decoding the date/time headers now...


                                               LRA



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