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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