Subj : can someone help please?
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Jimmy Day
Date : Sun Sep 29 2002 02:13 pm

 JD> Maybe someone could point me to an explanation of the
 JD> structure of these various file types?

 JB> (from a qwk-format doc)

 JB> Within the compressed QWK file are quite a number of other component
 JB> files. We'll start with the one called CONTROL.DAT since it is the
 JB> easiest to describe. It is an ASCII text file so if you have one
 JB> handy, you can follow along.

<edited>  Why thank you Jason!  This info <edited for bandwidth> is VERY
helpful and I just now printed it out!




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

 JB> Means the BBS is using a buggy zipper, or  possilbly there's something
 JB> wrong with the transfer protocol.

I think that's probably what happened; I grabbed some files from
ChowdaNet and one gave the same eror under WinZip.



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

 JB> .REP is for .QWK., dunno BW

"New for Blue" - I *did* get that puzzle solved.




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