Hello Mike!
In a msg of Jan,21 1998 you wrote to Ron Amos:

MC> On Jan 20 Ron Amos sez to andrew clarke:

RA>> The 16 & 32 bit DOS versions are having trouble maitaining Lastread 
RA>> pointers in msg format Netmail areas.  On occasion it works but, 
RA>> usually, it says tha there are 0 messages in the area and, after 
RA>> accessing the area, shows that there are, in fact, messages but the 
RA>> pointer is back to 1.msg -- Ron-

MC> Ron, this has been a bug in all 4.x releases I think, although USUALLY the 
MC> 16 bit 4.10 version works right here.

Also the 16 bit version 4.20/beta_2 worked fine here with the lastread
pointers at *.msg areas...

Regards,
Fred.Busch{at}t-online.de

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