Subj : QWK merge
To   : MARCELINE JONES
From : Mauro Veiga
Date : Tue Mar 23 2021 11:56:00

 -=> Quoting Marceline Jones to Mauro Veiga <=-

 MJ> REP packets should be backed up because they are the original source
 MJ> reply  data. If messages need to be re-uploaded for whatever reason,
 MJ> then they can be  retrieved from the REP. For example something can go
 MJ> wrong with an upload, or  only a partial import occurred. It might take
 MJ> you a week before realising  messages got lost. Also if you lose the
 MJ> REP packet then you cannot perform a  reconciliation between what was
 MJ> sent and received. 

     Understood.  I usually wait to see if all my replies have been
     echoed before deleting REP. It really boring to rewrite the replies.

 MV> Seems like you want a very personalized (and complicated) way to
 MV> organize a packets collection. A personal arrange.

 MJ> REP packets should be retained because a lot of work goes into
 MJ> replying to  messages. I would prefer to correlate REP and QWK packets.
     
     I take your point.

 MV> On my historical packets from 90's i only used merge programs to
 MV> have few packets to save and simplify data searches.

 MJ> Can you provide details of the merge programs you used ?

     Have many old programs to do it. 

     ADDQWK10.ZIP
     ADDREP10.ZIP    (merge REP packets)
     CATQWK22.ZIP -> worked very fine for me
     QWKM105.ZIP
     QWKX151.ZIP
     And more...

     Some programs has bugs with specific packets.  Is good to test
     several. 

     But merge of Bluewave packets are more complicated.  Has few
     programs with many bugs and limitations. I know:

     BWS_13.ZIP
     BWCOMB12a.ZIP
     BWM33-16.ZIP  (windows 16bits)
     BWM33-32.ZIP  (windows 32bits)

     Usually I was able to merge packets generated by a Bluewave door.
     But when they were generated by OLMS, there were several errors and
     crashes when using merge softwares.  Today, I rarely use these
     programs because it is easy to use the QWK door pointer backward
     feature.  I used it a lot with old packages of extinct systems.

     And Multimail has an excellent multi packages search engine that
     partially eliminates the need for merge to searches.


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