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- From: behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)
- Subject: Re: .QWK readers
- References: <9212230516.AA25003@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca>
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:10:22 GMT
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- 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao) writes:
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- >The following revelation escaped Soenke Behrens's lips:
- >>
- >> No, but you could probably easily write one. The .QWK format does not seem
- >> complicated.
- > Aren't QWK packets usually ZIPped? I think that's the stumbling block
- >for most people...
-
- .QWK packets are usually archived with what archiver you specify to the
- BBS software. BBS software that does not support it seems obsolete, I'd
- say. Update :)
-
- So, lowest common denominator is ARC. GSHK undoes that. Or use ZIP (PMPUnZIP).
- Or LHA (LHExt, LHA). Or ZOO (booz, GSHK). Or ARJ (UnARJ). That's no problem,
- really.
-
- Soenke
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