Subj : QWK Networking via Ele/RA
To   : Shurato
From : Jas Hud
Date : Sat Feb 24 2024 01:38:03

  To: Shurato
  Re: QWK Networking via Ele/RA
  By: Shurato to Jas Hud on Thu Feb 22 2024 12:17 pm

 > From Newsgroup: micronet.bbs
 >
 > Ok, QWK isn't quite working.  There seems to be an incompatibility issue
 > with pkzip 2.50 and whatever version of infozip mike powell is using.  I
 > can't change what the utility uses, but I might be able to use a different
 > version once he sends a packet to me in email and I can unzip it.  Or, I
 > could write
 > a script to pkunzip it then infozip it before it gets sent out.

so this program uses pkzip 2.5 and it's hardcoded?
i'm surprised.  furthermore there's 2 different syntaxes for 2 different pkzip2.x's.

you can actually upgrade 2.4x to 2.5 and use the same syntax.
you can also use a version that uses the new syntax that pkzip console uses.
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