Subj : New MM user w/no W32 joy To : JAMES BRADLEY From : MONICA NEUFELD Date : Tue Jan 27 2004 07:00 am -=> JAMES BRADLEY wrote to MONICA NEUFELD <=- -=> MONICA NEUFELD wrote to JAMES BRADLEY <=- -=> JAMES BRADLEY wrote to ALL <=- JB> I tried to sort out my compression program in version 0.38 of the JB> Win32 version of the program to no success. I tried to drop the 'j' and JB> 'L' options as suggested in the FAQ, but still received the warning JB> screen. Any ideas? Maybe the older version is not compatible with your machine. Have you tried downloading v0.46? JB> --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.38 MN> --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.46 JB> Does this newer version allow me to forward a reply to netmail? I would JB> have done so here had this version allowed it. If there is a way to reply to Netmail in MultiMail, I don't know how to do it. I think it does handle Netmail, but not for QWK packets. MN> There are 2 types of decompression programs. MultiMail's Windows MN> program uses Info-Zip as a default, as opposed to PKware. JB> ...As I read. I do RTFM somtimes. Funny! MN> Your configuration file should look something like this: MN> c:\MultiMail directory\pkunzip -# -o MN> c:\MultiMail directory\pkzip -# JB> ...As sometimes I delete TFM. It's been so long since I purged the 204g JB> docs, I couldn't find them again. What pray tell is the '-#' switch? JB> Thanks for writing, and sorry for cluttering up the echo. As soon as I JB> get in front of an I-Net account I'll be sure to update. JB> PS: It still didn't work. "Bad packet(/file)" orsome such was displayed JB> in the bottom corner of MM, and then it returned the same error message JB> as before. (The #1 entry in theFAQ.) I had tried '-oq' prior to asking JB> with the same results. My pk(un)zip executables are in my PATH, and JB> this DOS version ofMM works on the same packets that the 32-bit version JB> coughs on. I'm running on W98, and the BBS uses Mystic and a QWK door. JB> (Sheesh... I'm not so bashfull about posting publicly *now*. ;-) I had the same troubles when I first started working with MultiMail. What's the name of the directory that you installed MultiMail? .... Mickey / Monica Neufeld --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.46 * Origin: FidoTel & QWK on the Web! www.fidotel.com (1:275/311) .