Subj : Re: QWK Networking via El
To   : Mike Powell
From : Gamgee
Date : Sun Feb 25 2024 10:16:00

-=> Mike Powell wrote to GAMGEE <=-

 >  Ga> Even easier would be to just use uncompressed packets (have to
 >  Ga> configure that on each end).  No real need to compress things with
 >  Ga> modern technology and speeds.

 >  AL> That's true for FTN networking.  However, every QWK networking
 >  AL> solution I've ever seen expects the files to be ZIPped into the
 >  AL> .QWK packet.

 > Ahhhh, yes indeed.  Somehow I missed/forgot that he was talking about
 > QWK instead of FTN... Thanks.

 MP> In theory, you can tell ZIP to ZIP files up without compressing
 MP> them.  As it turned out, it was not the compression method but
 MP> something odd that Internet REX was doing.  When he uploads the
 MP> packets using filezilla or curl they seem to work.

Okay, cool.  Nice job figuring that out.  Not too unusual to see IREX 
doing something odd...  :-)  Thanks for the update.



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