Subj : QWK Networking via Ele/RA
To   : Jas Hud
From : Shurato
Date : Sat Feb 24 2024 13:33:00

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

 JH> > From Newsgroup: micronet.bbs

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

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

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

It's software from 1997.  Ok, it wasn't pkzip that was corrupting the files,
it was IREX.  Now I'm using irex to download and curl to upload.

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