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|    Dallas Hinton to Michael Dukelsky    |
|    A widow file    |
|    03 Jul 20 11:17:02    |
      MSGID: 1:153/7715.0 eff76520       REPLY: 2:5020/1042 5efed54f       CHRS: IBMPC 2       Hi Michael -- on Jul 03 2020 at 09:38, you wrote:              MD> In Fidonet, we have flow files referring to echomail and ticket       MD> files (.TIC) referring to fileecho files. If some echomail file has       MD> lost the flow file referring to it, or a fileecho file has lost the       MD> .TIC referring to it, may I call it a widow file (or maybe an orphan       MD> one)?              I've never heard them called that, but I don't see why not. I'd       personally call those files "orphans" rather than widows, but I'm not       sure why!                            Cheers... Dallas              --- timEd/NT 1.30+        * Origin: The BandMaster, Vancouver, CANADA (1:153/7715)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 18/0 90/1 116/116 120/340 601 123/0 25 50 131 150       SEEN-BY: 123/170 755 135/300 138/146 153/250 757 7715 154/10 30 40       SEEN-BY: 154/50 700 203/0 221/0 6 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426       SEEN-BY: 229/664 1014 240/1120 1634 1895 2100 5138 5832 5853 8001       SEEN-BY: 240/8002 8005 249/206 317 261/38 280/5003 313/41 317/3 320/219       SEEN-BY: 322/757 331/313 333/808 335/206 364 370 342/200 382/147 640/1384       SEEN-BY: 2454/119 3634/0 12 15 27 50 4500/1 5020/1042       PATH: 153/7715 3634/12 154/10 221/6 335/364 240/1120 5832 229/426           |
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