Re: .QWK readers

[bbs-aphelps@jwt.UUCP (Austin Phelps)]

mallen@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mark Allen) writes:

> I have somewhere on my archival disks the .QWK specs.  I was planning to writ

I also have the specs too. Had them for a while, finaly got areound to 
use them.

> a quick and dirty offline reader, but never got around to it.  From what I
> understand the packets don't have to compressed. Just in the .ZIP envelope. I
> also have the .ZIP specs too as a related source.  Encoding the packets in th
> .ZIP envelope didn't seem to be that hard, just no time to work on it.  I wil

Depends on the system. One system I call will only packed it un PKZIP 
v1.1 format while on another I get a wide choise. Some system require 
that it be pack up using [bbsid].rep (bbsid is define in control.dat) 
using PKzip or other paking metods. I have yet to call a system that 
doesn't require it to be pack in some format.

So far I just have a reader that will work on any 8bit computer using 
ProDOS 8. Right now it will work under 64k (ie II+ with Pascal v1.1 
protocal 80 column card in slot 3 will work fine). I'm working on the 
replyer. Once I'm finished it will require 128k. But if there enough call 
for the 64k version I will keep it around.

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