Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!dewhirst From: dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: second sight Message-ID: <1991Mar25.231719.29284@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 26 Mar 91 05:17:19 GMT References: Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 20 In article , z-factor@sherwood.rent.com (Scott Brown) writes: > A friend of mine is trying to start a BBS on his mac 2 using Second Sight BS > (it used to be called Red Ryder, i believe) but he is having major problems > with the message bases. The messages are being saved into the counters, but > the actual text of the messages is being completely screwed. > > Of anyone out there can help, email me. > A couple of questions for you and your friend: What do you mean by "completely screwed?" Can you read meassages correctly bu the text is garbage? Are the message headers intact? Try this - take a message section and extract the messages to a text file. Is the text intact there? Are the message files in the same folder as SS/RRH? What version number of SS is your friend using? -- []-------------------------------------------------------------------------[] | Internet: dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu | Famous Last Words: | | Sysop: The MacRocosm BBS 913-841-9446 | "I drank what?" - Socrates | | AOL: Echopapa | "I coulda had a V8" - von Braun | []-------------------------------------------------------------------------[]