-=> Quoting Jean Parrot to Nancy Backus on 07-23-06  09:01 <=-

 NB> From my own experience, there are some bbs softwares that do NOT have
 NB> any good, easy or reliable way to reset pointers for downloading
 NB> message packets.  Doc's Place is using Wildcat, which IS one of the
 NB> decent ones for resetting pointers, either individually or using the
 NB> .PTR file.

 JP> Too advanced for my use, Nancy, my way of resetting the
 JP> message numbers back a few has been fine and expeditious too. What

I've also resorted to your way when it's just a few echos, or I'm
restarting one that I had given up on for a while.  And when I couldn't
do u/l's, just d/l's...

 JP> do you do with the .ptr file ? Feed it back to the BBS ? If the D/L
 JP> is trashed, this file would be too, no ?

You u/l it directly to the bbs, at Your Settings/Offline/Upload PTR. 
And no, what might have trashed the message packet d/l might have been
simply a missing file, that was needed to open the whole thing for the
reader.  PKZIPFIX will untrash sufficiently to be able to extract the
PTR out of the ZIPfile (with PKUNZIP) in that case.  I've done that,
more than once, over the years.

And, you mentioned earlier that you hadn't had experience with the BW
door...  I'm surprised at that, since your other BBS, Juxtaposition, has
the BW door, and I've been using that as one of my backup bbs's.  :)

ttyl         neb

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