Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page changed: dev:chopping_block
  By: Keyop to digital man on Sat Sep 14 2024 02:51 am

 >   Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page changed: dev:chopping_block
 >   By: digital man to wiki.synchro.net on Thu Sep 12 2024 12:39:42
 >
 >  > Wiki edit of http://wiki.synchro.net/dev:chopping_block by digital man:
 >  > Add QWK prepack to chopping block list and HTMLterm to graveyard
 >
 > What does QWK prepack do?

Allows a sysop to have their system preemptively create QWK packets for specific users (e.g. QWKnet nodes), nightly.

Once upon a time, creating a QWK packet took a measurable amount of time (exporting the messages to QWK format, zipping the messages into a .QWK file), and QWKnet nodes might want to save those long-distance phone charges and have their packet already created and waiting for them when they made their once-a-day phone-modem call to their QWKnet hub to upload their replies (from the day before) and download their new messages in a QWK packet. I doubt anybody needs this optimization any more.
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