Subj : Re: .PTR files
To   : Digital Man
From : Finnigann
Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 12:27 am

-=> Digital Man wrote to James King <=-

 DM>   Re: .PTR files
 DM>   By: James King to Digital Man on Mon Aug 29 2005 10:10 am

 > OK that seems to have cured it.
 >
 > So what are these little jewels and what might have corrupted them?

 DM> Their files that contain the export pointers for QWK networks. If you
 DM> deleted your sub-board data files, for example, then the message
 DM> numbers stored in the .PTR files would no longer be valid.

 > BTW I had to do the same thing for the other network I get mail from.
 >
 > \SBBS\DATA\qnet\VERT.ptr
 >
 > Oh well maybe a paragraph in a FAQ somewhere sometime.

 DM> The files are *supposed* to be self-healing, but that feature was
 DM> broken in v3.12 and has already be fixed for future releases.

Well everything seems to be working again... Thanks for your patience.

ALL: You missed some really HOT replies.  (-:
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