-=> Quoting JEAN PARROT to BEN CARPENTER <=-

 JP> Hello to you Ben, I am awake now!
 
 BC> No we are not mixing apples and oranges.

 JP> Good, we are on the same ground then.
 
 BC> The bluewave door is on the bbs end and the reader is on the users
 BC> end.
 BC> Have I made my self clear?  If not ask away and I will try to make it
 BC> more clear.

 JP> No need to, I totally agree with you although I have never used the
 JP> BW door per se.
 
 Jean

 When you get a mail packet from a BBS it makes no difference what
 format it is QWK or Bluewave, you use a door (a term placed on the
 feature of the BBS that allows you to get a mail packet) on the BBS.
 When you get QWK packets the door name is determined by what software
 the SYSOP is running.  When you get a Bluewave packet the door is named
 the Bluewave door in most cases.  Some of the QWK doors are built into
 the BBS software.  I think that most of the Bluewave doors are not.  A
 Bluewave door is not available for all BBS software.  QWK doors may not
 be either but I think that a bigger percentage of the BBS software will
 handle QWK doors.

 As for the Bluewave reader, the first ones that George created would
 only handle Bluewave packets.  Later, maybe around v2.12 or slightly
 earlier he was convinced to include the QWK setup in the reader.  QWK
 and Bluewave packets are handled differently due to the difference in
 the format for the two different standards.  George set the standards
 for Bluewave and created the readers and doors to be compatible.  In
 the QWK format he had to make the reader handle the standard that
 someone else had created and not all QWK doors worked alike.

 I have used both QWK and Bluewave doors.  Some QWK doors are better
 than others, but most Bluewave doors are very much alike.

... Ben    

... We learn by our mistakes, why do I make so many?
--- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30