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   August Abolins to Martin Foster   
   [SemPoint] Breakthrough   
   04 Jun 19 18:14:00   
   
   MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet d9186971   
   REPLY: 2:310/31.3 003a45c7   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.39 (Win32)   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   Hello Martin!   
      
   ** 04.06.19 - 13:51, Martin Foster wrote to All:   
      
    MF>I've finally figured out what was causing the "missing" first line of   
    MF>every message and the garbage under the origin line issues. It would   
    MF>appear that SemPoint expects 8.3 messagebase filenames and more   
    MF>importantly, the "8" part of the filename MUST be in UPPERCASE, although   
    MF>it doesn't seem to matter what case the file extension is.   
      
    MF>04/06/2019  12:57           681,746 POINTS.jdt   
    MF>04/06/2019  12:57             5,984 POINTS.jdx   
    MF>04/06/2019  13:04           361,612 POINTS.jhr   
    MF>04/06/2019  13:26                16 POINTS.jlr   
    MF>---------- 8< ----------   
      
      
   Very good work!   
      
   But remember, I was having THIS problem:   
      
    AA> 05/25/2019  07:19 PM           162,203 FIDOTEST.JDT   
    AA> 05/26/2019  05:07 PM             1,520 FIDOTEST.JDX   
    AA> 05/26/2019  05:13 PM     4,294,967,371 FIDOTEST.JHR   
    AA> 05/26/2019  05:13 PM                32 FIDOTEST.JLR   
      
   Reading existing messages and writing a new message went well.  But as     
   soon as I went back the C)hange an message that I had previously posted     
   (but not yet tossed or sent), the above happend.   
      
      
     ../|ug   
      
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