BL> You need separate zippers and unzippers, so you may as well
 BL> have separate qwk2pkt and pkt2qwk too. Both formats are
 BL> bizarre, so who cares which one you use for the reader/editor?
 BL> QWK is more popular, so you may as well use it, and convert its
 BL> output to pkt for point use.

 KR> if you aren't going to use an off the shelf offline qwk reader,
 KR> why go to the bother of converting pkts to qwks? why not run a
 KR> real point with the advantages of a messagebase with automatic
 KR> maintenance?

  I still download QWK from the pcug... so I need both. And what d'yer
mean: a *real* point? I do a pretty good imitation. Do you mean I
ought to learn a whole new program that is as much use to me as a
second dick? So I can set up a BBS that I don't want to do? So I can 
send some dickhead money for a program that doesn't work very well? 
I can't see the point, really, and I don't need a messagebase manager, 
either. I use the delete command.

Regards,
Bob
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