DM> but I am  having a problem with the date time stamp of echomail. 
 DM> It is all appearing  as epoch time (Jan 1 1970 at midnight).  I'm
 DM> using Internet Rex 2.29 OS/2  version and Squish 1.11 for OS/2.

that's wierd... what's your system's time set to? are you using local time or 
are you running on UTC time?

 DM> I manually unzipped a packet received in Irex and the dates are
 DM> fine.  So the  problem lies either with Telegard or Squish.  My gut
 DM> feeling is that squish  is stripping the date/time stamp from the
 DM> echomail.

highly unlikely... unless it has a bug and doesn't understand the time in the 
PKTs... are you running anything else on the PKTs before squish gets them??

 DM> Anyone encountered this before or have any ideas?

i have an idea but let's see what the above turns up...

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