On 12/06/16, Paul Quinn pondered and said...
 
 PQ> the doco... Your 'NETMAIL' directory should have *.Msg files in it.  The
 PQ> 'USENET' directory ought to have all your JAM areas and the Hudson board
 PQ> areas.  The Hudson config should look something like this...
 PQ> 
 PQ> File Name         Size        Allocated   Modified
 PQ> --------------------------------------------------
 PQ> LASTREAD BBS           400           512  17/08/01
 PQ> MSGHDR   BBS             0             0  18/08/01
 PQ> MSGIDX   BBS             0             0  02/09/06
 PQ> MSGINFO  BBS           406           512  06/12/16
 PQ> MSGTOIDX BBS             0             0  02/09/06
 PQ> MSGTXT   BBS             0             0  18/08/01
 PQ> 

Yes they are their minus the lastread

 PQ> needing one.  Your problem with the LastRead.Bbs file nags me into
 PQ> thinking that you may need an editor to create one; simply pointing an
 PQ> editor at the Hudson areas prompts the editor to create one... IIRC.

OK thanks Paul... will work on this tonight when I get home and keep you
posted. I am going to start over and will focus on getting this key bit
working before I try and add some 2000+ JAM bases 

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