On 12/03/16, Wilfred van Velzen pondered and said...   
       
    Wv> lastread.bbs is a Hudson message base file. If it isn't there while doing   
    Wv> hudson maintenance, FTools quits. If you use the /J option it won't try   
    Wv> to do hudson mb maint, and you won't get that error... But strange that   
    Wv> the file doesn't exist!?   
      
   This is working, thanks... so with the /D switch also it will prune the bases   
   to keep them at X messages - correct?   
      
   Best, Paul   
      
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