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    From Richard Miles@1:3634/24 to All on Thu Apr 9 18:19:52 2020
    What can I use to look at what I think is a corrupt pkt file? Received one on the 6th and I guess it completely stopped my system from processing anything coming in until I found it this afternoon.

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Richard Miles on Thu Apr 9 15:46:42 2020
    Hello Richard,

    What can I use to look at what I think is a corrupt pkt file? Received
    one on the 6th and I guess it completely stopped my system from
    processing anything coming in until I found it this afternoon.

    Synchronet includes pktdump to look at the content of .pkt files. I believe there is a download at vert.synchro.net, just the exe.

    The husky project also includes pktview. It can be found at..

    http://download.huskyproject.org

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Richard Miles on Thu Apr 9 15:54:20 2020
    Hello Richard,

    The husky project also includes pktview. It can be found at..

    http://download.huskyproject.org

    The husky project includes two such utilities. pktview is a bash script and pktinfo is an executible.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Richard Miles@1:3634/24 to Alan Ianson on Thu Apr 9 19:49:36 2020
    On 09 Apr 2020, Alan Ianson said the following...
    Synchronet includes pktdump to look at the content of .pkt files. I believe there is a download at vert.synchro.net, just the exe.

    Thanks. I've got a sync install on another PC I use to pull in newsgroups.
    Will take a look.

    -=>Richard Miles<=-
    -=>Captain Obvious<=-
    -=>bbs.shadowscope.com<=-

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  • From Nigel Reed@1:124/5016 to Richard Miles on Thu Apr 9 22:23:00 2020
    Richard wrote:
    What can I use to look at what I think is a corrupt pkt file? Received one
    on
    the 6th and I guess it completely stopped my system from processing anything coming in until I found it this afternoon.

    -=>Richard Miles<=-
    -=>Captain Obvious<=-
    -=>bbs.shadowscope.com<=-

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/03/12 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Shadowscope BBS | bbs.shadowscope.com | Temple, GA (1:3634/24)

    I've asked Digitaman to add some extras to pktdump so you want want to
    update your version (on linux you can just update src/sbbs3/pktdump.c then
    make pktdump and copy it to your exe directory.

    -recover will write out any good packets into a .good file leavig the
    original in tact. -split, I think it was, will create a .good and a .bad
    again, leaving the original in tact but also creatig a new file with any bad messages.
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