Hello Rob!

** On Sunday 21.02.21 - 14:45, you wrote to me:

 >> Conversely, multiple qwk downloads from the same bbs are
 >> either rejected or prompted to be replaced.

 RS> That depends on the terminal program (or FTP client) which
 RS> is downloading the packets.

Terminal FTP just overwrites, doesn't it?
Zmodem from Netrunner, overwrites.
Zmodem from Syncterm, prompts for replacement?

 >> Qwk seems to be intended to dealt with right after the DL or
 >> deleted. No?

 RS> Normally, yeah. And usually, a QWK packet downloaded
 RS> immediately after another will contain no new messages.

Absolutley. But my point is that in its inception the QWK  
process probably never anticipated more than a handful of  
downloads per day and only spread far apart long enough for the  
user to deal with a previous packet and be done with it.

 RS> Rush quote #71:
 RS> He's not concerned with yesterday, he knows constant change
 RS> is here today

I have trouble with that song. New world man can't be one man  
bearing all those characteristics.

 He's noble enough to know what's right
 But weak enough not to choose it
 He's wise enough to win the world
 But fool enough to lose it




--
  ../|ug

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