Replying to a message of ART TAIT to ALL:

 AT> I hve been watching this closely.  I just dont see anything that has
 AT> been mentioned.  I can unzip a packet and see a file docs.ptr  This
 AT> gives a list of numbers that at the moment are meaningless. I suspect
 AT> that they refer to the echoes that I download.

 AT>                                 Art

That's probably true.  Several BBS software packages assign a specific number
to each echo and that's how the software refers to it internally (and with doors).
Obviously the number varies from BBS to BBS as it's assigned by the BBS/Sysop
when the area is first created on the system.

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