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to: Paul Edwards
from: Rod Speed
date: 1995-01-04 09:08:08
subject: TinyPoint

RS> Yeah, thats all I have done for now. Should really have added
RS> an explicit check for the error status return from PKZip, only
RS> a tad more effort. I'm planning a more comprehensive redo but
RS> am doing something else at the moment.

PE> Why not just use QWKPOINT.ZIP instead?  It is an archive that
PE> Alan created which tells you what software you need to be a point
PE> and still use your QWK system, under MSDOS.  It uses Frontdoor as
PE> the front-end, which you are already doing, and some other piece
PE> of software (mkqwk102) to do the pktqwk conversion.  Far more
PE> robust than crap like pqwk hung together by batch files.

That just does the same thing, change and pray without actually
checking that its actually working properly. Atleast with PQWK,
it is used daily by a number of people that I am likely to see
comment on problems if they find some.

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