Qwk

This file shoudl be named something like "QWK-1.30.sit.hqx" Please direct any comments or replies regarding this submission to TheBob@AOL.COM. (I very seldom use the bebrown@sdcc13.ucsd.edu account which I am sending this from.) File follows... --------------- QWK 1.30 This is a simple QWK-format offline mail reading package. In order to use it, you also need a good text editor, and a program to extract the contents of .ZIP files. I recommend BBEdit 2.2 and UnZIP 2.0, together with a patch that's floating around out there to add word-wrapping capability to BBEdit. Of course, you need a terminal program too. Instead of staying online, connected to a BBS for many minutes, or sometimes even hours, reading th emessages, and composing your replies to them, many BBSes now offer you the option of downloading all your new messages as a .QWK packet. You can then decode and read the messages offline, compose your replies, and upload your replies in the form of a .REP packet. Even if it takes you hours to read and reply to all your messages, you only have to spend a few minutes actually connected to the BBS. This package consists of a program called QWK, which will convert the contents of a .QWK packet into a readible text file, which you may read with any text editor, and another program called REP, which will take a text file created by you, containing all of your replies and new messages, and convert it to a .REP packet that yu may upload to the BBS to post your messages.