-=> Quoting Charles Jennings to Ben Carpenter <=-

 BC>  I just had a brain storm on your problem with grunged reply packets
 BC>  when you reopen them.
 
 BC>  When you get the erge to reopen a reply packet first copy it to a
 BC>  different folder so you still have the good one.  Then if it gets
 BC>  grunged if you can get a hold of Dale S and send a copy of the good 
 BC>  one and the grunged one to him for examination he might be able to
 BC>  determine what is going on and if it is the fix he authored that is 
 BC>  the problem.

 CJ> If you just need to edit a message in the rep packet (assuming
 CJ> zip) open it with Winzip and edit the message and Winzip will ask if
 CJ> you want to replace the changed file.  Say yes.  I have done this a
 CJ> number of times with Silver Xpress reps with no ill effects.

 I do not have a problem when I reedit messages.  It is Jean Parrot that
 is having the problem and I was just making suggestion to him to try
 and track down the problem.

 After reading the message that Dale Shipp sent I think the reason that
 Jean is having trouble and I am not is that Jean is using BW2.12 and I
 am using BW2.30. I also know that Jean uses Doc's which has a QWK door.
 The QWK packets are the ones that need the fix.  The BW problem was in
 the door on the BBS end. I use 3 different BBS's two of which also use
 the QWK door, but I also use Juge.com which has both a QWK door and a
 BW door and I use the BW door there.  But I have not had a problem with
 the QWK reply packets. I am all the time reopening messages and or
 packets.  In fact most of the time I never delete a packet.  I add new
 messages and delete the messages I have already sent from the packet so
 I have no idea when the packets I am using were first activated, may
 have been a couple years ago or more. I do this with both QWK and BW
 packets.

 CJ> If you need to add new messages try this.  Move the rep packet
 CJ> to another directory and create a brand new rep packet.  Then
 CJ> upload both rep packets to the door.  Or you can probably rename
 CJ> the first packet's extension.  SX's door doesn't care what the
 CJ> extension is.  I suspect BW may be the same.

 I have not played with it in a long time so do not remember which ones,
 but some doors are fussy and need the "rep" extension for QWK, others
 may not be so fussy.  Is this a door thing or the way the SYSOP has the
 setup for his BBS.  Not being a SYSOP I have no way of determining if it
 can be changed.  I have no idea about the BW doors as I do not remember
 changing the extension on any of them from "new".

... Ben    

... Mercy for the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
--- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30