-=> Quoting Jean Parrot to Nancy Backus on 07-13-06  09:30 <=-

 NB>> There are some bbs's where one does have to make more of a convoluted
 NB>> effort to reset pointers, and some where there really isn't any good
 NB>> way to do it.  But, as the original poster was using the QWK door on a
 NB>> Wildcat board, what I said IS the way to do it.  It's easier yet with
 NB>> a BW door, but that's a luxury that we don't have all that often any
 NB>> more. Sigh.

 JP> I do not know anything about a BW door, Nancy. I am sure that
 JP> on any BBS, one can reset his ( ooops his/hers ) read pointer as
 JP> when one first selects the conferences to read on any type of
 JP> access. On Doc's Place, the Win95 echo has thousands of messages
 JP> and I do not want to start at 1 again. That explains why I piped up
 JP> here.

From my own experience, there are some bbs softwares that do NOT have
any good, easy or reliable way to reset pointers for downloading message
packets.  Doc's Place is using Wildcat, which IS one of the decent ones
for resetting pointers, either individually or using the .PTR file.  If
a whole packet is trashed, extracting the .ptr file from either that
packet if possible (sometimes ZIPFIX will fix things enough to retrieve
that out of the packet), or from the previous packet.

ttyl          neb


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