Subj : Scan/pack
To   : IB Joe
From : Rick Smith
Date : Mon Nov 13 2023 06:53 am

Hello IB!

Monday November 13 2023 07:34, you wrote to me:

 IJ>  * Forwarded from area 'FE_HELP'
 IJ> On 13 Nov 2023, Rick Smith said the following...

 RS>> Hello All!
 RS>>
 RS>> I almost have Irex\fe\proboard working.  However I cannot send
 RS>> out mail and I believe it is a FE issue or a compression software
 RS>> issue.  I remember under os2 using HPT/BINKD and couldnt unpack
 RS>> mail and it turned out to be the version of ZIP I was using.
 RS>> Here is the output of FE SCAN when I try to pack mail, and while
 RS>> it doesnt say anthing about an error all I get in my outb is
 RS>> either a .clo or a .qqq file and no pkt to send out. [6:17 AM] þ
 RS>> XMS version 2.00 detected
 RS>>

 IJ> I have a simple and easy work around....  I have for years had all my
 IJ> hubs just send *.pks and I also just send them *.pks and it's worked
 IJ> better than fine.

I may have fixed it... I found a older version of ARC for os/2 and now its packing.  I remember having this issue with HPT\BINKD setup and it turned out to be the decompression so I thought I would give it a go and its working, thank you!

Regards,

Rick

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