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Starting July 1st, Sparkware is making minor changes to the
"QWK" format we originated in 1987. The changes made to the
format are minor but add information that is used by our new
offline mail reader system, 1stReader.
NOTE that 1stReader will also work with "conventional" QWK
mail packets produced by Qmail Doors released before 06-01-92
or on other Qmail-compatible mail doors. However, 1stReader
works *best* with these changes in place.
These changes in the format take hold if the user turns on
OPTION #21 inside Qmail Door. If this option turned off then
Qmail Door continues to generate standard QWK formats.
Two changes have been made to the format. The first change
involves line #10 in the CONTROL.DAT file. Since 1987 this
line has been reserved for the total number of messages
contained inside the QWK mail packet. This change prevents
1stReader from having to scan MESSAGES.DAT to determine how
many messages are in the packet.
The second format change deals with individual message headers.
The format has been changed to:
Status AS STRING * 1 'Status of message
Number AS STRING * 7 'Message number
Date AS STRING * 8 'Date
Time AS STRING * 5 'Time
MsgTo AS STRING * 25 'To
MsgFrom AS STRING * 25 'From
Subject AS STRING * 25 'Subject
Password AS STRING * 12 'Password
Reference AS STRING * 8 'Reference number
Blocks AS STRING * 6 'Number of blocks
Delete AS STRING * 1 'Current status of message
Conference AS INTEGER 'Conference
----> MsgCount AS INTEGER 'Logical msg number in packet
Tag AS STRING * 1 'Message tagline
Notice "MsgCount". This value now contains the logical message
number for the message in the packet. In other words, this
value will be "1" for the first message in the packet, "2" for
the second message in the packet, etc.
Again, these changes are now in effect for the 1,467 Qmail Door
systems that were compiled on or after 06-01-92.