TH> I am decoding QWK packets. As you may know QWK packes are
  > constructed of 128-byte records. Each post is made up of a header
  > record and usually one or more text records. The header record is
  > composed several fixed length fields for which a user TYPE works
  > very well. However the text records is essentially one continuous
  > string.
ES> Here is some code from a few years back I wrote for a friend to
  > read messages in QWK format. It uses fields however, not types.
 ES> FIELD #2,1 as msgstatus$,7 as msgnum$,8 as msgdate$,5 as msgtime$,_
 ES> 25 as msgto$,25 as msgfrom$,25 as msgsubj$,12 as msgpswrd$,_
 ES> 8 as msgrefnum$, 6 as numblk$,1 as msgactive$,2 as msgconf$,1 as
 ES> msgtag$ 
Does FIELD have to be on one logical line?
 ES> cnt=13
 ES> ep=sp+val(numblk$)-1  'end pointer
 ES> for i=sp+1 to ep
 ES> get #1,i
Does this automatically go to msgtxt$?
 
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