-=> Quoting James Bradley to Nancy Backus on 01-09-08  20:03 <=-

 NB>> Correct, it is mostly a cosmetic thing, just the way the reader
 NB>> listing of message packets pulls in the date on the file for the user's
 NB>> viewing. In the non-fixed reader, that listing merely was eg 05 Jan 10,
 NB>> no matter what the actual year was.  Richard fixed it so that it would
 NB>> at least be a useful year date, so now the above would be 05 Jan108 or
 NB>> whatever the appropriate year was.  The date on the message itself
 NB>> shows as 05 Jan 08 or however you configure your reader to show the
 NB>> date.  :) 

 JB> I'm a little stumped here:

 JB> +-- January 9, 2008 ------------------------------------ 06:51:36 --+
 JB> | Msg#: 1 of 4                           Read Replied Saved Printed |
 JB> | From: Nancy Backus                     Date: 01-07-08  21:21       
 JB> |   To: Jean Parrot                      Mark: Reply Save Print Del |
 JB> | Subj: BW setup.                                                    
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 -=> Quoting Jean Parrot to Nancy Backus on 01-04-08  11:16 <=-

 JB> ...Is my message screen at the head of your message. As you can see,
 JB> "January  9, 2008" *is* todays date, and " Date:
01-07-08  21:21" seems
 JB> reasonable. Am I  missing something? I still use REPFIX.

Question.  Do you have more than one message packet in the directory
where bluewave looks for message packets?  If so, When you first open
the reader, and choose (O)pen message packet, what you get first is a
listing of all the message packets you have sitting in that directory,
and on each line, there is a packet name, size and date, along with a
place for stats for the packet, which get filled in once the packet has
been opened for the first time.  It is that listing to which we are
referring.  :)  The set-up for the way the dates are shown at the top of
message screen itself is part of the reader's configuration.  I think
the date in the header there has more to do with how the bbs offline
door handles the dates when the message gets tossed out into the echo.

 JB> Am I  missing something? I still use REPFIX.

REPFIX essentially just fixes the dates on the messages as the reply
packet is being zipped up.  My Wizard hubby did a more basic fix on the
reader (and the TG BW door, along with explanation of how to apply the
fix to other doors), which makes the use of REPFIX unnecessary.  It is
available at a couple of bbs's, including Waldo's Place.  ISTR, though,
that you are just dial-up, and not telnet?  Do you have web access at
all, or email?  Waldo's Place is also on the web, and you can get files
from that side of things.  Or I could send you the zipfile as an email
message, if you have email.

ttyl       neb

... MODEM? I've been calling this BBS with a Tarot deck.

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