Hello Nancy, nice talking to you !  

 NB> As it turns out, only a few messages are generated by those
"forced"
 NB> areas.  So once you have your initial d/l, you really don't have to
 NB> worry about them later.

        But it is all garbage that I do not need.

 NB> And, for that first d/l, you don't have to get all the old
 NB> messages anyway, as you can tell BW to only take the last NN
 NB> messages... :)
 
        Hey, this my trick to recoup a lost .qwk.

 NB> The .ptr file is only a .qwk thing (and not even all .qwk at that).
 NB> It does work with Wildcat .qwk files, so works at Doc's and similar
 NB> boards. As far as I can tell, it wouldn't work with your Juxta files,
 NB> though, so you'd have to do those manually if at all...

        Oh, back to the old trick, hey ? I have not lost a packet in
   quite a while. I got one from Doc's just as I was leaving home and
   thus copied it to a floppy and today, I copied it back to my system
   away from home. See tag.

        Have a great day Nancy.
     
       
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