Hello, Bruce, I hope that you are having a nice day ! 

 BC> The "messages" are NOT saved back to the .QWK, the Flags/Marks are 
 BC> saved back to an .XTI file. 

 BC> The "messages" stay in the same serial order in the
MESSAGES.DAT file,
 BC> which is not updated in the downloaded .QWK file, and the .XTI relies 
 BC> on that order for placing the Flags/Marks. 

        That is very very new to me this .XTI file. I will go and look
  for it but I just can not recall ever seeing it.

 BC> By the way... 
 BC> This was brought up before. 
 BC> Has the Download Directory and/or .QWK files been inadvertently 
 BC> labeled as Read Only. 
 BC> You should be able to see the "Attributes" with a Windows program 
 BC> that lists Folders and Files. 

        It is. I saw it but why ?


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