Subj : can someone help please?
To   : JIMMY DAY
From : DANE BEKO
Date : Mon Sep 30 2002 03:51 pm

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-> 1)  What is the difference between QWK and BW mail packets?

Format and availability.  The Bluewave format is more conducive to
Internet and FidoNet messaging IMO.

-> 2)  The BBS has a Blue Wave mail door, it downloads in ZIP format 
-> - so what happened to QWK and BW files?

Is the extension of the mail packet .ZIP or is it something else like
..QWK or .051?  The compressor used is ZIP but the extension and contents
can be anything. You can have a .QWK packet compressed with ZIP and you
can have a BW packet compressed with ZIP.

-> 3)  Some packets give the error "control.dat not found" - tried on 
-> 4 different OLRs, and PKUNZIP -t shows that there is indeed NO
-> control.dat file. Looks like all the other files are there.  So 
-> why no control.dat file?  Maybe someone could point me to an 
-> explanation of the structure of these various file types?

The CONTROL.DAT file orients the offline reader to which conference is
which, what the name of any bulletins are, etc.  That file is needed by
the offline reader.  What were the filenames of the contents of that
packet that didn't have the CONTROL.DAT file?  Perhaps you were looking
at a BW packet.

-> 4)  Some packets also give unpack errors, CRC errors.  What's that 
-> mean?

Transfer problems from the BBS to your computer.

-> 5)  As for reply packets - what's the difference between *.NEW and 
-> *.REP? Maybe one goes with QWK and the other with BW?

You got it.  The .REP extension is for QWK replies and the .NEW extension
is for BW replies.

-> Blue Wave OLR is what I am using now, it seems logically written 
-> and was *sort of* easy to configure.

Nothing wrong with BlueWave; I've used it myself.  Whatever you like and
works for you is the one you should use. :-)

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