Hello Bruce, ' tis a nice day today. 

 BC> Look to see if the shortcut has a place to list the "working 
 BC> directory/folder". 
 BC> That would probably take care of the problem. 

 Not necessary any more. I got it working good now. Help file and
 speck-cheller to boot .

 BC> Or if you could get the loading folder/file to do the equivalent of: 

 BC> C: 
 BC> CD\BWAVE 
 BC> BWAVE.EXE 
 BC> That should rectify the problem.
 
 That is the path that the shortcut takes too.

 BC> The instructions are in the BWAVE???.DOC file (mine is BWAVE386.DOC). 

 BWAVE386 ? And I use BWAVE/DOS. Should I switch ? for sure, I should
 read the .doc at some stge of the game.

 BC> I use Buerg's LIST program to read it, but any text editor will work.

 I saw a reference to this Buerg yesterday but I have been using a prize
 winning editor for as long as I have been on BW, TSE,Jr. Does all I
 want.

 BC> The "attributes" are kept in data files in the message packet. 
 BC> The problems you have been having have been keeping revisions from 
 BC> being reZIPed into the message packet when you exit BlueWave. 

 I still do not see the attributes kept here. I will RTFM today and see
 what I can make of this.

 BC> BlueWave hasn't been saving them for the same reason as all the other 
 BC> problems: it couldn't find its' "folder".

 And which folder is this ?

 BC> Hi-lite each line and press F1 to see what it does. 

 I did. What an education this was.

 BC> Download Directory C:\RBW\
 BC> Upload Directory   C:\SND\
 BC> Work Directory     C:\BW\WORK\
 BC> Reply Directory    C:\BW\REPLY\
 BC> Data Directory     C:\BW\DATA\
 BC> Swap Directory     P:\TMP\ (Ramdrive)

 Mine is quite the twin of yours, only real difference is the last one,
 mine goes to the BW folder proper, I have: C:\BWAVE\

 BC> Douitashimashita!

 A ceci je reponds Mille mercis. ( how come you dwelled in japaneese ? )

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