On 09 Mar 05  18:12:27, Nancy Backus got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Saving .rep w/o closi

 DC> I have sent replies and re-sent dupes after I went back into BW 
 DC> and closed that open packet re-creating a new REP.  

 NB> Hmmm.  I'm not sure I understand then what you were asking.  Or what I
 NB> said that you may not be understanding...   In "normal"
operation, if
 NB> a rep packet exists for that bbs, unopened, it would be opened if you
 NB> went to reply to a message.  If no rep packet exists, then a new one is
 NB> opened to receive the reply you are about to make.

But, right now, I have a REP and it's opened.  This message has not 
yet been saved to the REP.  If I sent the REP right now, it would 
send all of the messages that were in the REP when I opened it.  It 
would then save my new messages *plus* the messages I've already 
sent.  Those prior messages are "saved" in temprorary file and 
get re-saved on exiting.  

 NB> So, if you've sent the rep packet, and deleted it, there shouldn't be
 NB> any rep packet, so a new packet would be opened.  But that is a

See above.  The Temp Messages get re-saved even though the initial 
REP packet was send and deleted.  



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