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to: Paul Edwards
from: Frank Malcolm
date: 1995-12-05 00:52:04
subject: PKTs & QWKs

Hi, Paul.

What does PKT2QWK (and PKTJOIN) do if you run out of disk space? I
*think* at least PKT2QWK just cleans up nicely but reports no message.

After my enforced off-line for a week I got a 720k packet, which ended
up as a 220k QWK. I was low on disk space, and reckon it probably
reached nil during the batch file. Fortunately I was half awake, so
deleted some crap and ran the unpacking & conversion again - lo and
behold, a six hundred and something k QWK (QWKs are smaller than PKTs).
But there were no error messages out of either prog. I think it would
have been PKT2QWK which hit the no disk space limit.

Regards, FIM.

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