Re: .QWK readers

[mallen@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mark Allen)]

>    Not everyone has v.42bis or high-speed modems, but if indeed the QWK
>specs don't require that the reply packets be compressed, it would remove a
>very large obstacle.
 
I have somewhere on my archival disks the .QWK specs.  I was planning to write
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 the
.ZIP envelope didn't seem to be that hard, just no time to work on it.  I will
try to post them to cco.caltech.edu (unless Todd says otherwise! ;).  Mail me
if you're interested enough...

I will try to find time to get them unpacked and uploaded.

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                     Mark Allen    Northwestern University
                          mallen@casbah.acns.nwu.edu