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    From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Sean Dennis on Sat Jan 22 00:56:20 2011
    If memory serves, wasn't there a client-side utility to convert QWK packets to Bluewave?
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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Kurt Weiske on Sat Jan 22 11:07:55 2011
    Hello, Kurt.

    Saturday January 22 2011 at 00:56, you wrote to me:

    If memory serves, wasn't there a client-side utility to convert QWK packets to Bluewave?

    Not that I know of. Then again, I'm a fairly new user of Blue Wave.

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From Peter Krefting@2:203/0.222 to Kurt Weiske on Tue Jan 25 14:56:56 2011
    If memory serves, wasn't there a client-side utility to convert QWK
    packets to Bluewave?

    From my ancient "Bluewave Products List", dated June 2000 [1], I have these entries, two going the other direction:

    BlueQWK 1.70 BLUEQ170.ZIP DOS Geoffrey Sy
    Converts BW packets to QWK packets.

    BW2QWK 2.2 BW2QWK22.ZIP DOS Ronald E. Raikes
    Converts BW packets to QWK packets.

    QWacK 0.96 QWACK096.* DOS George Hatchew
    Converts QWK packets to Blue Wave packets, and Blue Waver reply
    packets to QWK reply packets.

    I do not have a copy of any of these, nor any further details on its availability. Good hunting!


    On a related note, I once wrote a converter that converted incoming point message packets into Bluewave packets, and vice-versa. The source code for that
    is still available at <URL:http://www.softwolves.pp.se/sw/software/indigo>. It might be possible to hack that making QWK the input/output format.

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Peter Krefting on Tue Jan 25 21:41:02 2011
    Hello, Peter.

    Tuesday January 25 2011 at 14:56, you wrote to Kurt Weiske:

    I do not have a copy of any of these, nor any further details on its availability. Good hunting!

    I've downloaded and added them to my BBS's filebase under BBS.BLUEWAVE. They're
    available via email freq also. Thanks for the data. :)

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From NANCY BACKUS@1:261/1381 to PETER KREFTING on Fri Jan 28 19:29:00 2011
    Quoting Peter Krefting to Kurt Weiske on 01-25-11 14:55 <=-

    If memory serves, wasn't there a client-side utility to convert QWK
    packets to Bluewave?

    From my ancient "Bluewave Products List", dated June 2000 [1], I have these entries, two going the other direction:
    BlueQWK 1.70 BLUEQ170.ZIP DOS Geoffrey Sy Converts BW packets to QWK packets.
    BW2QWK 2.2 BW2QWK22.ZIP DOS Ronald E. Raikes Converts BW packets to QWK packets.
    QWacK 0.96 QWACK096.* DOS George Hatchew Converts QWK packets to Blue Wave packets, and Blue Waver reply
    packets to QWK reply packets.

    All of those were only needed with the 2.12 and earlier versions of the BlueWave Reader, which didn't have QWK support built-in. The 2.20
    Versions and following have the QWK support built-in so no need for any
    utility to convert them. I routinely read and reply to QWK packets in
    my BW reader now... as you can see from the lines below, I'm using the
    2.20/DOS version.

    ttyl neb

    ... Hard disks never die...they just grind away.

    ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
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  • From NANCY BACKUS@1:261/1381 to SEAN DENNIS on Fri Jan 28 19:38:00 2011
    Quoting Sean Dennis to Peter Krefting on 01-25-11 21:41 <=-

    I do not have a copy of any of these, nor any further details on its availability. Good hunting!

    I've downloaded and added them to my BBS's filebase under
    BBS.BLUEWAVE. They're available via email freq also. Thanks for the
    data. :)

    You might want to note somewhere that they are only needed (or useful)
    with the much older versions of the BlueWave Reader. Building in QWK
    support was one of the features of the 2.20 version, possibly one of the reasons why a new registration was needed for that and above. :)

    ttyl neb

    ... Ride The Wave!

    ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
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