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to: Rod Speed
from: Dieter Mirbach
date: 1995-01-01 22:41:02
subject: TinyPoint

.. One fine day, Rod waffled to All..

 Hello Rod,

 RS> Shit.

 And to you too. |-)

 RS> Fairly gross problem with TinyPoint, or more specifically MAKEMAIL.BAT

 I don't think it was meant to be anything too fancy, but....

 RS> The problem is with the unzipping of the PKTs, and the > null
 RS> on the ends of those lines.

 Yep.

 RS> If you dont have enough free space, its quite possible for that to
 RS> just fail to unzip one of the largest PKTs out of the archived PKT
 RS> without a single hint of a problem, just silently carrys on regardless
 RS> and a whole chuck of mail goes straight into the bin forever.

 I've had that problem once or twice, hence my requests from 
 Paul for back messages. 
 
 In the end, I've removed all the > NULL redirections, so at 
 least I can get an error message and reprocess the received mail 
 packets with MAKEMAIL.BAT.
 
 Not the best solution, but passable. I wouldn't suggest the 
 TPOINT package for a novice because of these pitfalls though.
 
 Dieter
 

... Not tonight, dear.  I have a modem.
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12
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