Subj : Re: packet type
To   : Jimmy Day
From : William McBrine
Date : Sat Oct 19 2002 04:11 pm

-=> Jimmy Day wrote to All <=-

 JD> As I have both BW and QWK mail packets all jumbled together now, was
 JD> wondering if there's a quick way (no pun intended!) to determine which
 JD> type of mail packet is being opened in MultiMail.  Can't tell by the
 JD> extensions, as they have all been renamed.

When you open a packet, in the area list, look towards the bottom of the
screen, in the field labelled "Type:". It will say "Blue Wave" or "QWK" (or
one of several other possibilities), as appropriate. (It's actually
indicating the type of the highlighted area, but part of that is the packet
type.)

-=> Jimmy Day wrote to Greg Sears <=-

 JD> What's an easy way to see if a mail packet is QWK or BW without
 JD> unzipping?

You can't do it without unzipping. Although you could do it just by
_listing_ the archive with an unzipper, rather than _extracting_ it.

And then there's the method I use: I only download one type of packet from
a given BBS, and I remember what it is. :-) So if I look at a packet named
"commport.231", I know it's Blue Wave; "fonix.150" is QWK; "telocity.093"  
is SOUP, etc. Though there are some exceptions (e.g., I was getting OPX
packets from Fonix for a while).

Why do you want to know, anyway?

.... Heisenberg may have slept here.
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