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 Message 432 
 mark lewis to Manuel Adorni 
 Problem with sysop user 
 01 Sep 15 13:44:24 
 
01 Sep 15 09:33, you wrote to me:

 ml>> run "RAMGR /U" to use the user editor and look at the records to see
 ml>> if they contain proper data... you might want to copy your RA data
 ml>> files to a safe place before using RAMGR or editing any records...

 MA> Yeah, I thought so too. I can not figure out which is the software
 MA> that can be modified.It may be the AMU 3.20?

i don't have any idea... it is possible that it is an external door rewriting
the EXITINFO.BBS file which RA reimports when returning from the external
door... back in the day, i wrote utilities to split the EXITINFO.BBS file into
the old format and the new data in another file... that allowed old doors to
work and update the file which was then merged back together before returning
to RA so that corruption did not happen like this...

the main things to look for are

  1. what version of RA are you running?
  2. do your external doors and tools specifically recognize that RA version.

if they do not explicitly state that they work with your version of RA, stop
using them, fix the user file errors, and then try them one at the time to see
if the corruption returns... i've dropped most all of my external tools other
than the ones i wrote myself and compiled with the proper structures for the
RA i'm running... especially doors and utils that update the user record
information...

)\/(ark

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