Subj : Re: can someone help ple To : Jimmy Day From : Jasen Betts Date : Tue Oct 01 2002 08:40 pm Hi Jimmy. 29-Sep-02 12:37:02, Jimmy Day wrote to Rob Strover JD> Hmmm, it makes sense. I just hope i'm correct... It sounded correct to me. JD> Now that I have this sort of figured out, I can do the PKUNZIP -t JD> on them and look at the contents. As I remember, the "mis JD> ing control.dat" problem occured only with CMPqwk, which obviously JD> cannot read BW packets, so maybe the BW packets don't use the JD> control.dat file? more sleuthing is in order on my end. yeah the arrangement of the contents of BW files is different to the arrangement of the contents of QWK files. A bit like the difference between Betamax and VHS. JD> I think that's right. I just downloaded several files from JD> Chowdanet BBS, and one had this same error, and WinZip gave a JD> similar message, saying that the zip file was corrupted, most JD> likely need to download again. yeah, make sure you don't leave downloaded packets in your download directory, some software can do the wrong thing if it sees a file already there, it's probably a good idea to turn off "crash recovery" IME zmodem almost always works (I once had it corrupt a download but that was on a extremely noisy line (I was getting about 10% efficiency it was so bad) JD> Guess that was the *wrong* thing to say here! but brings up the JD> logical question - did Microsoft ever produce an OLR for Blue Wave JD> or QWK? And what does QWK stand for, anyway? "Quick" I think. It was originally for charing message conferences between PCBOARD BBSs... -=> Bye <=- --- * Origin: Adult: One old enough to know better. (3:640/531.42) .