FM> Do you still have a copy of OLX? Fire it up, send a message
 FM> with attached file and see what it produces. If you don't tell
 FM> me & I'll set up a virgin packet (to avoid complications) &
 FM> send you what gets generated. Then, perhaps easily, you can dup
 FM> that in the BL(VB)QWK2PKT.

 BL> I erased OLX - long gone. QWK does file requests using a file
 BL> called door.id but this only applies to QWK readers and won't
 BL> do you much good with qwk2pkt unless it reads door.id.

 FM> That's why I suggested using OLX or, if you like, I will. In
 FM> OLX you can specify that a message has an attachment. It
 FM> creates a file with some info in it about the attachment.
 FM> Presumably, that's the QWK standard. I thought that's what you
 FM> wanted me to know, so you could implement an appropriate
 FM> conversion in VBRep2Pkt.

  Oh. I misunderstood... you were going to send me a QWK packet? I
thought you were going to run it through qwk2pkt, which would just
ignore the whole thing.

...[later] I've just discovered that BlueWave does file requests too.
I'll have to read it up to find out how.

Regards,
Bob
 
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