SFPACK32 v0.6.0 Beta 1 - Testing and Bug Reports
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This is a public beta. The safest first test is completely read-only.

RECOMMENDED FIRST TEST
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1. Make an external backup of SFMCONF.DAT and the complete MESSAGE directory.
2. Confirm every Spitfire node is shut down.
3. Confirm Event M is disabled and SFPCKMSG.COM is not in the active home.
4. At a command prompt run:

       CD /D C:\SF
       SFPACK32 /VERSION
       SFPACK32 /?
       SFPACK32 /ALL /DRYRUN
       SFPACK32 /ALL /DRYRUN /V

5. Confirm the standard and verbose summaries report identical totals.
6. Confirm MESSAGE\SFTOSS.BSY disappears after each completed run.
7. Confirm no PTR, IDX, DAT, LMR, SIG, SFMCONF.DAT, or SFOUTBOUND.SEQ file
   changed during /DRYRUN.
8. Perform the first /WRITE only during offline maintenance and only after
   reviewing the dry-run report.

PLEASE INCLUDE IN A BUG REPORT
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* Exact SFPACK32 version and EXE SHA-256.
* Windows version, service pack, and 32-bit/64-bit host information.
* Exact command line.
* Whether SFPACK32 is in the Spitfire home or run with /HOME.
* The relevant section of SFPACK32_REPORT.TXT.
* Whether SFTOSS.BSY remained after the process ended.
* Whether the issue repeats on a copied message base.

VALIDATION STATUS
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Confirmed for this exact public-beta EXE:

* PE32 Intel i386 console executable.
* Windows OS and subsystem version 5.01.
* KERNEL32.DLL is the only imported DLL.
* No CLR/.NET runtime header.
* Four reviewed sections: .text, .rdata, .data, and .reloc.
* .text, .data, and .reloc are byte-for-byte identical to the closed-beta EXE.
* The only section-content change is the two equal-length public-beta labels.
* Clean source extraction builds successfully with the included scripts.

Tested facts inherited from the unchanged code line:

* The exact closed-beta v0.6.0-beta1 EXE completed matching normal and verbose
  production dry runs on the user's 32-bit Windows 7 Spitfire system.
* The immediately preceding v0.5.4-m3 code line completed Windows XP SP2 32-bit
  help, lock, real-write, verified-backup, commit, verification, and no-op tests.

The exact public-label EXE had not yet received its first real Windows loader
smoke test when this ZIP was assembled. Run the four commands above before
posting the file publicly. Static PE inspection alone is not a Windows test.
