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   Hello August!   
      
   *** Sunday 10.05.20 at 17:27, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:   
      
    AA>>> Winpoint needs to be running for that to work.  You're messin' with my   
    AA>>> mind.  :/   Make sure you have Winpoint running, drop a nodelist.z## in   
    AA>>> the \DistribNL folder and watch Winpoint change it from nodelist.z## to   
    AA>>> nodelist.###   
      
    MF>> I'm still watching and nothing's happened yet :)   
      
    AA> Short of capturing on vidoe what I see, I don't know how to convince you   
    AA> that it *is* happening here.   
      
   I'm merely trying to reproduce on my own system what's happening on your     
   system but I can't.   
      
    AA> Maybe your WinPoint is not activate to auto-unpack or something like   
    AA> that?   
      
    AA> In Extras/Options/Automation, I have:   
      
    AA>    List updates = Automatic in Background   
      
   Yep, same here.   
      
    AA>>> It was a brief confirmation in echomail.  Despite my archive of msgs in   
    AA>>> POINTS, I can't seem to spot the specific exchange we had about it.   
      
    MF>> I've found one that's relevant to this thread but I don't know if it's   
    MF>> the   same one you had in mind. Try doing a MsgID search for 4c120309   
    MF>> with   OpenXP...   
    AA> [snip]   
      
    MF>> If you can't find that message, let me know and I'll repost it.   
      
    AA> I found it, but not in my local OpenXP.  For me, that Winpoint discussion   
    AA> predated my introduction to OXP, so I looked in my Winpoint.  Thankfully,   
    AA> Winpoint automatically includes the msgid in its "text" searches!   
      
   Oh, I didn't know WinPoint did that, thanks for the heads-up.   
      
    AA> In 4c1201309 the last sentence you wrote: "WinPoint's nodelist processor   
    AA> cannot process packed nodelist/pointlist files, although it can process   
    AA> packed nodediff/pointdiff files."   
      
    AA> I hear ya.  But I swear to you, simply dropping the packed nodelist   
    AA> automatically unpacks here!   I still have to Shift+Ctl+L or   
    AA> "Fidonet/ProcessNodelist" manually for the new nodelist to update,   
    AA> however.   
      
   Hmmm, well, there's obviously a difference somewhere between our setups     
   but what it is eludes me right now. Perhaps one day, one of us will find     
   it.   
      
   Regards,   
   Martin   
      
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