-=> Quoting Dan Ceppa to Jean Parrot <=-

 JP> I heard this song before, you know, but it does not. As
 JP> suggested, I had a look at the DOWN folder and indeed it is set at
 JP> read only but it is greyed out, the û in the small square. I untick
 JP> it but it defaults back to "read only". Would this be the cause of
 JP> my trouble ? Next .qwk D/L, I will pick another folder. I use ZOC
 JP> for getting the mail and it is very easy to modify.

 DC> That, I believe, is your problem.  

 DC> The file should be set to archive.  

 DC> And, that you can't change the attirbutes seems to mean that something
 DC> is setting it automatically.  It may be in your archiver string 
 DC> in BW itself.  

This is the file list is my C:\BW\WORK\ directory while writing this 
reply: 

000     .NDX         5 01/20/2005 16:14 A---
209     .NDX        25 01/20/2005 16:14 A---
BBSNETS .INF      2510 01/20/2005 16:18 A---
BBSNETS .PTR       234 01/20/2005 10:22 A---
BBSNETS .XTI        12 01/20/2005 16:18 A---
CONTROL .DAT       566 01/20/2005 10:22 A---
DOOR    .ID        196 01/20/2005 10:22 A---
GOODBYE           1149 01/20/2005 10:22 A---
HELLO             3492 01/20/2005 10:22 A---
MESSAGES.DAT     10496 01/20/2005 10:22 A---
_RESTART.BW~       607 01/20/2005 16:14 A---


Does Jean leave ZOC running after downloading the message packet? 
If so, that might explain the Read Only problem. 
Some programs won't release their hold on a file until you Exit them. 


 
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