Hello Nancy, nice talking to you !  

 NB> I think that George was probably smart enough to have the program look
 NB> inside the packet for what type it was for figuring out whether the
 NB> reply should be a .rep (for .qwk) or a .new (which is what a true BW
 NB> message packet generates for a reply packet), but I haven't actually
 NB> checked that out by renaming a packet to see if it confuses the
 NB> reader.  That experiment can wait, I am sure... :)

        That car accident, George's, was the worst thing that could
   and did happen to him,     and us. We lost a great programming mind
   then and his brother did not really pick up from him. I wonder
   where they are now ? I really envy persons who can program like
   this, I tried ML on the Commodore, nogo. I tried BASIC and
   succeeded in writing a PRG for astro navigation, all spherical
   trigonometry, it worked. Then I quit while I was still ahead.
     
       
   In Kamouraska where the belugas are.
             N 47' 34.27   W 069' 51.44
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