On 09 Sep 05  04:22:46, JOHNJWILSON got back to ANYBODY? 
-> Re: Anybody home?

 JO> Well, I got Multimate...and a dos-box...
 JO> Does anyone have experience with Blue wave and Doc's place?...
 JO> I'm having trouble welding the two together...

It's those pesky electrons.  They don't sit still to let you 
focus on them...  


As I recall, you have a version of BW.  It should matter too much 
as to which one...  

What you need to do is find out how to d/l and u/l mail packets from/to 
DOC's.  I believe you can do that from the settings you can edit 
while online at DOCs.  

If I was you, I'd start with a sort of test Echo where you won't 
have to worry much on lost messages.  More than likely, you should 
be able to read messages online that you have already d/l'd.  

ISTR that DOCs will be sending a QWK-style packet.  BW can read that.  
But, you will need to get Dale Shipp's BWREPFIX onto your system.  

I don't need it for my setup, but I doubt that you want to try to 
emulate my configuration!  In any event, it's a one-time configuration 
change in BW as to how the packets are opened and closed.  It's 
only a few keystrokes in the BW Config file.  

One thing to note though, don't expect to see the correct headers, etc 
when you view your replies in BW 'View Mode'.  They will be fudged!  
However, if set properly, your messages will come through fine when 
you send them.  

If there's a problem we'll let you know on this end.  

As it is, I think the place to start is in finding out in the DOCs 
menus as to how to get DOCs to d/l a message packet.  And, don't 
forget to note the directories where you download them into and 
where it expects to find your reply packets for uploading.   

It should be quite similar to your old BBS methods...  


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