I was trying to download QWKE packets from Agency tonight using a local login via Nodespy.

From that login I set the the scan date to 01-01-15 and in the offline menu removed all fsxNet bases from the scan for new messages.

I then started adding one base at a time and running the download new
messages each time to see what happened.

I found I could add three message bases

FSX_GEN - 29361 messages
FSX_MYS - 2997 messages
FSX_CRY - 138 messages

to one packet - 32426 messages - it was 7.78 Megabytes in size

If I tried to add more message areas prior to downloading it did a scan but strangely reported no new messages found even though it showed lots of new messages for each base.

If it downloaded the packet with above messages, and updated pointers onnthe BBS then tried another download - this time will all fsxNet bases tagged... Mystic then said there were no new messages for the above three bases
(correct) and also said

FSX_BBS - 725 messages
FSX_BOT - 4038 messages
NETMAIL - 515 messages (this is my fsxNet netmail base)

Total messages in packet 5279 ... and it downloaded fine - file size 3.47 megs

Now the other interesting thing is the first packet I downloaded opened using pkzip with errors. The errors reported were


Searching ZIP: AGENCY.QWK
PKUNZIP: (W13) Warning! inconsistent local header for file: 2008.ndx
Inflating: 2008.ndx PKUNZIP: (W15) Warning! file fails CRC check
PKUNZIP: (W13) Warning! inconsistent local header for file: 689.ndx
Inflating: 689.ndx PKUNZIP: (W15) Warning! file fails CRC check
PKUNZIP: (W13) Warning! inconsistent local header for file: 707.ndx
Inflating: 707.ndx PKUNZIP: (W15) Warning! file fails CRC check
Inflating: control.dat
Inflating: door.id
Inflating: messages.dat
Inflating: personal.ndx
Extracting: qlr.dat
Inflating: toreader.ext

PKUNZIP: (W26) Warning! AGENCY.QWK has errors!

The second packet I pulled down opened fine

Searching ZIP: AGENCY.QWK
Extracting: 356.ndx
Inflating: 415.ndx
Inflating: 690.ndx
Inflating: 708.ndx
Inflating: control.dat
Inflating: door.id
Inflating: messages.dat
Inflating: personal.ndx
Extracting: qlr.dat
Inflating: toreader.ext



That's the latest from me. I'm off to bed :)

Best, Paul

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