-=> Quoting Bruce Clark to Perry Smith <=-

 -=> Quoting Perry Smith to Bruce Clark <=-
 
 PS> TOPIC: Re: Bluewave
 
 PS> I had both PKZIP & PKUNZIP (don't know what version, just something I
 PS> had on diskette) in the BWAVE home directory and edited the BWPACK.ZIP
 PS> file as you suggested for ;ZIP.  I was lazy and didn't try it for
 PS> :OLDZIP and the other archivers because I didn't think it necessary.  I
 PS> will tweak some more and try again and let you know.

 BC> Actually, you probably never will need any of the others below 
 BC> :ZIP

 BC> :OLDZIP
 BC> is for storing the packet contents, with zero compression, so the 
 BC> packets are compatible with all older versions of PKUNZIP. 
 BC> Version 1.x won't decompress version 2.x compressed ZIP files. 

 BC> Also go into: 

 BC> Setup/Configure Mail Reader

 BC> Preferences
 BC> Default Preferences
 BC> File and String Preferences
 BC> Compress Reply Cmd   (Make sure you have NOT got a PKZIP command here,
 BC> or change it to the C:\BW\BWPACK.BAT command.) 

 BC> Do the same for: 

 BC> Preferences

 BC> Packet Preference Override
 BC> Msg Area Preference Override

 BC> Each has a: 
 BC> File and String Preferences
 BC> area with: 
 BC> Compress Reply Cmd 
 BC> area to check on. 


 BC> If any of these are set, they will over ride the default setting. 


 BC> As far as your text editor problem, pick one that you are 
 BC> comfortable with. 
 BC> Since I started with WordStar, I just call it with the non-document 
 BC> switch from BlueWave. 

 BC> Setup/Configure Mail Reader

 BC> External

 BC> Message Editor Cmd  {at}C:\WS6\WS.EXE /N {at}F
 BC> Spell Checker Cmd
 BC> Terminal/Comm Cmd
 BC> Editor/Browser Cmd  {at}C:\BW\LIST.COM {at}F
 BC> Tagline Manager Cmd

 BC> The "{at}" before C:\ calls a new "COMMAND.COM"
for the program to 
 BC> run under. 


Thanks, this is great stuff!

As you can see I figured out the Y2K fix by using the archiver command line
C:\BW\BWPACK.BAT OLDZIP {at}F {at}I .

I tried it first in the configuration over-ride and later discovered that
the same applies if its just in the archiver setup.

I will look at another editor as the edit.com without the word-wrap is
annoying from my end.

Hopefully I will be able to use something like Ultraedit.



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