Subj : crashmail Echo JAM Base - Errors and Exporting
To   : Bj”rn Felten
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Oct 27 2016 05:55:36


27 Oct 16 05:07, you wrote to Paul Quinn:

 PQ>> * destroy your existing JAM messagebase

 BF>    Ouch!

 BF>    There is another way that relies on a program written by one of the
 BF> originators of the JAM message base. The FrontDoor editor has never failed
 BF> me once when investigating or converting message bases to and fro JAM.

you cannot fix corrupted bases... not with FM, anyway... not and keep all messages... i had a tool that i wrote that allowed corruption to be fixed but it was extremely manual and required that you adjust the offsets of the fields and the pointer to the message body... it could easily fix corrupted messages but with a loss of data if it wasn't in the correct place... i don't even know where that tool is as it was just so much easier to bite the bullet and start the message base(s) over once new binaries came around... IIRC, you joined the FD beta team after JAM was introduced so you missed a lot of the fun we had testing the format at that time... as far as i recall, you were also the last FD beta member to join the team... good times those day... good times :)

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