FM> As you will appreciate, there was a pretty big packet waiting for me
 FM> when I got home - 648k compressed, 1.7Meg raw. So it should have taken
 FM> quite a while for PKT2QWK to do its stuff, but not 57 bloody minutes!
 FM> Round about the 400+ message mark, it started to take several seconds
 FM> per message - anything from 1.5 to 5+ - as indicated by the output as it
 FM> does each one. Then, it decided to write a zero-byte CONTROL.DAT! So the
 FM> only thing readable was the personal messages. This was easily fixed by
 FM> grabbing a CONTROL.DAT out of another packet.

 FM> The old problem also occurred, with spurious stuff being generated into
 FM> the .NDXs. This was also easily fixed, by deleting all the .NDXs. AAMOI,
 FM> there were 1523 messages according to the indexes but only 1395 real
 FM> ones.

 FM> This time, I hope I've captured all the input so I can recreate and
 FM> possibly track down these problems. I notice you've sent me a new
 FM> PQWK222.ZIP. What does it fix?

PQWK222 fixes the problem with people leaving "To:" out of their
netmail, so please switch to it.  And if you can reproduce the
problem with PQWK222, especially the problem with CONTROL.DAT
being zero-length, I'll take a look at it.  Please include an
archive containing the PKT files, and a batch file that calls
PKT2QWK with whatever parameters you normally use.  BFN.  Paul.
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