Board:   [DoveNet] Programming
Subject: Re: C Origins
From:    Digital Man
Date:    Mon May 25, 2026 15:30

  Re: Re: C Origins
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Mon May 25 2026 08:05 am

 > -=> Digital Man wrote to poindexterFORTRAN <=-
 >
 >  > I did not know that! I liked the BW format more than QWK, wish more
 >  > boards supported it.
 >
 >  DM> I looked into BlueWave kind of recently and I can tell you: it's file
 >  DM> format actually kind of sucks - I would have addedsupport otherwise.
 >  DM> QWK with the Synchronet extensions (mainly HEADERS.DAT file) are way
 >  DM> better than BW. --
 >
 >  Truth be told, it's been years since I compared the two, and it was
 >  vanilla QWK versus BlueWave on Maximus. The truncatedsubject lines
 >  were my biggest gripe with QWK.

Right, and both QWKE and the Synchronet HEADERS.DAT address that (and many other) limitations in QWK.
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                                            digital man (rob)

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