-=> JOE MACKEY wrote to MARTIN ATKINS <=-

 -=> Quoting Martin Atkins to All <=-

 MA> My last d/l had a zip error, and there were a bunch of messages to me.
 MA> How do I re-set the counter to the previous d/l to recover those
 MA> messages?

 JM>    I don't know where you are getting your messages, but I use Doc's
 JM> Place.  There it is very simple to simply go back a download or two
 JM> and those message are still there.

He's login in on telnet. This means he's trying to set pointers back
via the QWK door.

 JM>    Check with your syops for your system.  Most older messages are
 JM> store somewhere.

That's right they are still here in one form or another. :)

 JM>   I don't know of BW itself being able to go backward for messages.

It's the other way round. It doesn't have to be B/W or any QWK reader.
He has lost a QWK packet probably whilst down loading with Zmodem and 
wants to recover it.

Anyway we had a small inquest in our local echo regarding the 
resetting of the *. PTR and it was unanimously agreed i had a memory
error.

One poster opined that it might be easier to set back the dates on each
echo rather than the pointers.

I gave up on the whole thing and suggested he log in HTML via
DOCS web site and pick it up from there.

Zmodem is not the best protocol for downloading files anyway.

Thank's for the reply. ;)

 
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