Hi, Bob.

BL>  BL> is there a convention under QWK (like To: on the first line),
BL>  BL> or do you just identify a file name in the subject field? Can
BL>  BL> you do file requests this way too?

BL>  FM> Do you still have a copy of OLX? Fire it up, send a message
BL>  FM> with attached file and see what it produces. If you don't tell
BL>  FM> me & I'll set up a virgin packet (to avoid complications) &
BL>  FM> send you what gets generated. Then, perhaps easily, you can dup
BL>  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 do you
BL> much good with qwk2pkt unless it reads door.id. I was more interested
BL> in the QWK convention for doing a freq or file attach from inside the
BL> reader. I can easily invent something for myself that will work with
BL> VBrep2pkt.

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

Since you don't have OLX, do you want me to make up a packet so you can
see how a QWK reader does it?

BL>  BL> I could add it to my rep2pkt easily enough, but I can't make
BL>  BL> head nor tail out of qwk2pkt.

BL>  FM> It's written in C. Don't even try. :-)

BL>   Yair... I'm only up to beginner C, and the stuff in qwk2pkt is just
BL> impossible.

I think someone once called it a 'write-only' language.

Regards, FIM.

 * * The human male ego is a very fragile element.
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