-=> Quoting Tika Carr to NANCY BACKUS <=-

 TC> It would be nice if someone made a BW reader for Linux. And a BW
 TC> door and BBS system. Would work quite reliably, I would say.

There is actually a version of an offline reader called MultiMail
which will run under Linux.  MultiMail can, IIRC, work with QWK & BW
packets as well as some other formats.  Its author [William McBrine]
occasionally makes an appearance in this echo.

I have copied the following from one of his release notices:

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MultiMail is a free, open source (GPL) offline mail packet reader for
Unix, DOS, OS/2, Win32, BeOS and AtheOS. It currently supports the
Blue Wave, QWK, OMEN and SOUP formats. It uses a simple curses-based
interface.

The MultiMail home page is:
 http://multimail.sourceforge.net/

Alternately, you can get it via FTP:
 ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/multimail/

Binaries for several platforms are available, along with the source
code.
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      Rob.


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