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to: Paul Edwards
from: Frank Malcolm
date: 1996-06-09 17:07:12
subject: Quickstep

Hi, Paul.

I imagine you're not particularly interested, but I thought I'd share
with you a couple of minor things I've noticed in PKT2QWK.

1) For a normal message you set the status to 'public, unread'. Fine.
   But if it's marked private in the PKT you set it to QWKPRIVATE,
   defined in QWK.H as '*'. That is actually 'private, read' The flag
   for 'private, unread' is not defined in QWK.H but is '+'. Obviously
   not a major point but for consistency I think they should both be
   the appropriate 'unread' status.

2) In WRITLINE.C the function write_line() breaks output lines with the
   QWK soft-cr at a point nominated by the caller. This is called from
   XQWK.C with 76 for that parameter. The result is many 'orphan' words
   as the CR in the PKT terminates the original line a few characters
   later. I'd been wondering where they were coming from.

Regards, fIM.

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