Re: .QWK readers

[90taobri@wave.scar (Brian Tao)]

The following revelation escaped Scott Alfter's lips:
> 
> Given information on an archive format, it should be easy to create an
> "archive" that contains uncompressed elements.  *.REP files are
> usually small enough that lack of compression won't significantly
> increase upload time, especially with V.42bis modems (which do their
> own compression).

    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.

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