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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 04:24:39 PST
From: bebrown@sdcc13.UCSD.EDU (Pseudo-Barry)
Subject: Here's a program to be put up on yoru FTP site...
This file shoudl be named something like "QWK-1.30.sit.hqx" Please direct any comments or replies regarding this submission to TheBob@AOL.COM. (I very seldom use the bebrown@sdcc13.ucsd.edu account which I am sending this from.)
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QWK 1.30
This is a simple QWK-format offline mail reading package.
In order to use it, you also need a good text editor, and
a program to extract the contents of .ZIP files. I recommend
BBEdit 2.2 and UnZIP 2.0, together with a patch that's floating
around out there to add word-wrapping capability to BBEdit.
Of course, you need a terminal program too.
Instead of staying online, connected to a BBS for
many minutes, or sometimes even hours, reading th emessages, and
composing your replies to them, many BBSes now offer you
the option of downloading all your new messages as a
.QWK packet. You can then decode and read the messages offline,
compose your replies, and upload your replies in the form
of a .REP packet. Even if it takes you hours to read and
reply to all your messages, you only have to spend a
few minutes actually connected to the BBS.
This package consists of a program called QWK, which will
convert the contents of a .QWK packet into a readible text
file, which you may read with any text editor, and another
program called REP, which will take a text file created by
you, containing all of your replies and new messages,
and convert it to a .REP packet that yu may upload to
the BBS to post your messages.