Hello Nancy, nice talking to you !  

 NB> Actually, I never removed any files from my directory.  Dale's fix,
 NB> and the BZIP.bat file (which is what I named it) are still there.

        Ditto here. I kept them all just in case of a need to rename
   them back to their original name. I only added an "a" to their
   names.
 
 JP> Two minutes later now. I went back into (S)etup and redid the
 JP> F2 to use the default command, tested it on this half of my reply
 JP> and it seems to want to work now. Strange !

 NB> Reason being, that one has to exit BWave for the change to take
 NB> effect. 

        Being innocent (stupid) at times, pays off. Now, I will let
   all be as is, it is working fine. What I like is the proper date on
   the message being read. Dale S's BWREPFIX did not show this, his
   brainwave was actually put to work in an "afterthought" scheme but
   still saved our BW. Thanks Dale.
     
       
   Redoing the whole basement here.
            Limited BBS time for a while.
  
                  
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