BL> You unspeakable bastard, Brenton! You did it again! Another 31K
 BL> message when pkt2qwk is set up to handle 30K. You trashed your
 BL> packet a second time!

 BV> Bbbbb...but...You said to send it again.

  But I thought you'd have the decency to give me time to change the
limit on pkt2qwk!

  It crashed again today when Paul dropped carrier halfway through a
download... and the recovery system works! All I had to do was do it
again.

  The only problem was that I ended up with two different QWK packets, 
with some duplicated messages from the first half of the truncated 
packlet, and I can't decide if that's a bad thing or not. This bloody
thing has got away from me. 

  I've been identifying packets by name, but if I only want one QWK 
it gets complicated, and if I dont want to throw out the whole packet, 
I'd have to make a hard copy of how many messages it unpacked before 
it got rooted. Bugger it! Who cares? 

  Oh! I could just join the two QWK packets and eliminate the dupes.
I could do a QWK joiner! Is there no end to this evil genius?

 BV> You should still read the message that's greater than 32k
 BV> though. 32k ain't much and I'm sure that Rod could write more
 BV> than 32k in one message if you got him excited enough :)

  Yair... I was going to let it read infinitely long messages, but in
the end I thought the smaller code looked safer, and my editor only
reads 10K at a time anyway. I get nervous when I start using too many
IF's. I still prefer the 30K limit, I think... so get rooted.

  I paid $10 to register my EZquote editor, and I don't throw money 
around like some I could mention, buying expensive tyres and smelly 
dead sheep for the back seat. I think you are supposed to skin the 
sheep first.

 BL> Aaaarrrrgggghhh! It's real! Bloody Microsoft has called
 BL> something BOB, and they've got a picture of me on it!

 BV> Yep...I don't want to tell you that I told you, but ... :)

  I thought you were being a smart-arse - taking a real M$ thingie and
just changing the name to "BOB". Bloody hell!

  Are they fuckwits, or what? *BOB*? What sort of a name is that?

 BL> so I used the post-paid envelope to send them an abusive letter
 BL> I told them that Communique was as useless as a priest with
 BL> three pricks and no choir boys...

 BV> ROFL...It is a cheap way to buy Mickey$oft stuff though.

  So... I'll join when I get the urge to buy something from Microsoft.
Why waste $40 when I don't want to buy anything? Are you silly or
sumfin?

 BL> They wanted to charge me $299 for Communique Pro. They said I
 BL> could talk to someone on my wavelength for $299.

 BV> ROFL...They don't charge anything down at Callan Park and most
 BV> of the support specialists there would be on your wavelength
 BV> too :)

  Exactly! Why would I want to talk to a fuckwit! I get enough of that
at home.

 BL> I signed it Brenton Vettoretti

 BV> phew. That was lucky. I sent mine back with all the boxes
 BV> ticked to join up for the $299 Communique Pro and I signed it
 BV> Bob Lawrence.

  Aaaarrrrgghhh! Stuffed again!

Regards,
Bob

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