Subj : Re: EDIT text editor
To   : Greg Sears
From : Jimmy Day
Date : Mon Oct 28 2002 11:54 pm

G'day yourself, Mr. Greg!  How are things in your part of our ever-
shrinking world?


On 10-26-02, Greg Sears said to Jimmy Day:



GS>  JD> (and DOS 6.22 fit onto 3 floppy disks)... in "the good old
GS> days"...  

(Windows 3.1 on 6 disks)


GS>  JD> What's an easy way to see if a mail packet is QWK or BW without
GS>  JD> unzipping?  I have a LOT of mail packets on the drive here and
GS>  JD> they've been renamed so I don't know which is which.  I don't
GS>  JD> see any way to do this via MM or Blue Wave.


Mr. McB. kindly pointed out to me the line in MM where it tells the type 
of packet.  It *was* obvious, once I actually *looked*...

Anywhooo, I wanted to know because I have over a hundred mail packets 
scattered all over the drive, and have programs to merge them, and 
needed to know.  MM does read BW, QWK, and SOUP mail.

Actually, I have been pleased with MultiMail, but it recently grunged a 
reply packet I sent to a BBS; and the sysop tells me another person had 
the same problem with HER MM, so I am using CMPQwk now.  It's great, 
almost like using MS' Outlook Express.  Boy am I spoiled now.

Greg, do you know of anyone else who's had this strange glitch with 
Multi Mail?  Upon upload, the mail door program unpacks it, and messages 
explode all over.  I grunged the BBS with over a hundred "blank" 
messages in the local areas.  

Of course it only reads QWK mail, but that hasn't been a problem, as the 
BBS I post via all have QWK offline reader doors.

My main BBS also has the Blue Wave Door, which did mysterious things to 
my last-read pointers and selected conferences, so all I use is QWK-
format mail.

Also, I struggled for months before I realized that BW and QWK are 
actually two different packing formats, so I coined a memory catchword 
to remember what goes with what.  "NEW with BLUE".

Boy am I corny tonight!




Well, cheers for now.  I do like your signature on your messages!


=== The scenery only changes for the lead dog. ===

CMPQwk 1.42 16554 - the premiere Windows QWK reader.



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