Hi! All,

I must have been on a drugged-up high last night (don't worry, all prescribed
meds).  After 'dark', I compiled a new CM II from v1.5 source, and let it loose
for about 40 mins last night.  All was good till my little netbook locked up in
Thunderbird, trying to read the Fidonews group/echo.  Ermm... Thunderbird has
never done this before and exhibited unnerving behaviour.  Eeek!

So, this morning... most of which for me has elaspsed, I've been attempting
some sort of recovery.  First idea was to switch to yesterday's backup.  Then,
after a re-think: maybe I could do better using the JAM files from -this- node.
After starting that task, it became too hard as the echo area filenames were
not consistant between nodes.  Great fun, after blowing 45 mins on that!

Therefore I have commenced plan 'C'.  I am about half-way through re-enacting
plan 'A' again, using yesterday's backup.  But I had to take the time to write
this note... which is another annoying task diverting my attention from the job
of fixing what needs fixin'.  In short: I am having a Friday.  Which some of
you who used to work may remember was usualy a 'given', where Murphy's rule
rules.

Mmm... I will be doing a compile of the CM II 0.71 linux source this arvo.  At
least I will be prepared this time for up-fu@ks... hopefully.  ;-0

Oh, and before I leave this note... I am thanking my lucky stars to have
invested in registering the windows file manger Total Commander (TC)' all those
years ago.  You see, my daily backups from #/1384 are in the form of a full
directory tree of /opt/ftn/fido/* contained in a .tar file.  (That's the entire
Fido configuration for the node; no other Fido-related stuff anywhere else.) TC
has no trouble at all navigating around in a .tar archive.  Further, I was able
to write a fresh .zip in the left file panel with (JAM) files highlighted in
the right file panel, contained in the .tar!  Try that Neil Armstrong!

Cheers,
Paul.

... No smoke or sparks!  ...Hmmm...  Must be a software problem then...
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox