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From: XPJV@PURCCVM.BITNET (Barry Smith)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.games-l
Subject: RDRLIST problem
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Date: 1 Feb 90 16:10:00 GMT
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Reply-To: Barry Smith <XPJV@PURCCVM>
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Thanks to ALL who IMMEDIATELY helped me out.  The answer I used was:

RECEIVE / filename filetype A

What the problem was was that I had a file of HACK_DOC (no filetype).