15 Sep 15 04:36, you wrote to Eric Renfro:

 ER>> What do I need in order to insure that my message bases are being
 ER>> properly packed and purged according to -p and -$m with Jam
 ER>> echoareas?

 MB> Fidonet traffic is relatively low I opt to keep everything in all
 MB> echoes except those with automated posts.  You have probably already
 MB> been told about sqpack. My gripe is that it automatically renumbers
 MB> message areas.  The operations of purge, pack and renumber are
 MB> different operations and should be seperate.

i absolutely agree there with that gripe... especially if hpt is to be used
with a message base backing a news server... renumbering can cause untold
headaches when the users' news readers don't know about the message numbers
having changed...

 MB> hptutil used to be an option but is buggy.

can't say that i've heard of that one... perhaps it is easier to fix sqpack
or even to fork it to a new name and then fix that one so that purging,
packing and renumbering are all separate operations... perhaps a name like
hptmsg or hptmaint or hptpack?

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