PE>> How come no-one's ever complained about QWK2PKT printing a
 PE>> whole lot of messages "comparing conference xxx with xxx"?

 BL>   I complained about that. You told me to get stuffed, and Rod told
 BL> me to hack the exe file. I've been promising myself to change the .c
 BL> file and recompile it eventually because watching the bloody things
 BL> on the screen sux dead dogs' dicks.
 
I probably didn't understand what the problem was.  If you had
told me they were debug messages I had forgotten to take out,
that is different from not liking the format of PQWK telling
you that it saved so-and-so space etc.  I admit it is pretty
hard to tell the difference!  Anyway, I "released" (to a
different directory on my hard disk) PQWK219 yesterday, and
PQWK220 today (to fix a problem with converting a PKT into
a .REP instead of a .QWK.  Anyway, I will send it to Brenton
when I get back, because I want to be here during the 
breakin-in period.  I've actually done some rudimentary
testing on this, because I am getting QWK packets from Uni
and converting them into PKT and then loading them into my
system here.  The first stage was to just get the QWK
working, that was hard enough as it is. 

 BL>   The other thing that gives me the shits is that PKT2QWK puts the
 BL> last messages first under the same header. For instsance, I read
 BL> this one just before the one you sent to ALL. You get to read the
 BL> answer before the question. That sux dead dogs' dicks too.

This has nothing to do with pqwk, it just takes the file as
it comes.  In which case you might complain about pktjoin,
but all it does is take them in the order they appear in the
directory.  Try looking at the .PKT files you receive AFTER
THEY HAVE BEEN DECOMPRESSED.  See what the date and time
stamps are on them.  See if the first directory entry has
the smallest date.  I don't know how that could be stuffing
up, since they should be in the right order in the zip file
AFAIK.  Crikey, they should even be in alphabetical order.

Of course, the proper thing to do is run Paul Markham's
Packet Sorter.  Yes, it works under Windows 3.1 for philistines.
Yes, it works under Desqview for the other philistines.  
Caveat - this is all hearsay.

BFN.  Paul.
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