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

                          **Mike**  

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