-> On 10 Jan 04  10:09:02, mark lewis got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Message Threading

 ml>> i dunno anything about FileFind... what is that?
 
 DC> An old Norton utility.  I think that the update is FIND in WIN

 ml> oh... i never really used the norton utils all that much... FF and NCD
 ml> were the two i used the most of those... and diskedit, of course...

Diskedit won't work under WIN.  Nor will Undelete.  

 ml> once i started using LIST, though, it quickly became the most used
 ml> util on my systems... i LIST everything and in many cases, its also
 ml> what i use to change directories simply because when i did, i was
 ml> wanting to see a list of the files and then to look inside them...
 ml> most of the time, that is... still kinda that way, too... the norton
 ml> stuff and norton commander are/were just too much overkill for what
 ml> LIST can do in such a small package... 

I used to use Norton a lot!  It saved my ass when I accidently 
erased the only copy of a very large data base I had.  


 DC> I can see the kludges on the BBS.  There is no REPLY in
 DC> messages imported from Blue Wave.

 ml> right... unless you can somehow get one created manually that retains
 ml> the ^A character without filtering or translating it to something
 ml> else... most times ^A is filtered to {at}... 
 ml>> ok, i uncompressed the .REP packet and there is only one MSG file
 ml>> inside it... that's where i looked and i do see the characters as
 
 DC> I'm use .NEW  , which is the BW format of a .REP

 ml> ok and you uncompressed it and looked at the MSG file inside it?

I didn't find _any_ kludge lines.  I think that they get hidden in 
the uncompress process, as I know that they are there.  As above, 
they reappear at least when imported into TerMail.  



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