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In article <kehnqoad@holly.demon.co.uk>, Mark Rogers wrote:
> Excellent - I'll give this a shot. I have the shareware version sat on 
> my hard disk. I'm not sure I followed your instructions on how to do it 
> too well, but I'll see what I can work out.

First, get the _latest_ version of VA, as the menus have all changed, and 
I won't be able to talk you through any problems if you don't. I _think_ 
there's a demo version (but it has a time out).

> Do you know offhand whether VA accepts n and ssss values with leading 
> zeros? It would be trivial to get KA9Q to put "Memo #00000 (00000000)" 
> in as the seperator (using the "smtp seperator" line in autoexec.net); 
> writing a small app to go through the file afterwards filling in those 
> values ought not be too hard. (If leading zeros are a problem, how 
> about leading/trailing spaces?)

I am pretty sure leading zeroes will be OK.

> If "n" is ascending, how does VA cope with deleted messages?

It ascends within the one input batch. Then it can start again at 1 in the 
next batch.

> What is your relationship with VA? ISTR that it isn't strictly 
> "platonic" ... 

I do some contract work for them. I thought you knew - I should have 
declared an interest. The priviledges committee will be after me :-)

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Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd.      PC & Unix consultancy & programming
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