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.QWK file policy
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Once a .QWK file has been processed, i.e., everything useful has
been extracted from it, Power-QWK will perform one of three
possible actions depending on your selections in this
configuration session:
1. Delete the file (answer Y to the 'delete .QWK files?'
question).
2. Rename the file using a mask that you supply (answer N
to the question 'delete .QWK files?' and you will be
prompted for a rename mask).
This mask can cause the file to be moved to a new
directory if you wish, as long as the new directory is
on the same drive as the .QWK file directory.
3. Do nothing (reply N to the 'delete .QWK files?'
question and then, when prompted, spacefill the rename
mask).
If you ask for .QWK packets to be renamed then the mask that you
supply must be a full path name:
drive\path_name\new_file_name
new_file_name may contain * and ? wildcard characters, providing
that the following rule is remembered:
* in the name or extension refers to the WHOLE of the name or
extension.
i.e., renaming a packet called DLINE.QWK using the
rename mask *1.OLD would rename the packet to DLINE1.OLD.
However, renaming with the mask *HADIT.* would result in the
packet being renamed to DLINEHAD.QWK (the new name would be
truncated to the eight bytes maximum permitted by DOS).
Power-QWK also offers a special renaming facility which you can
obtain by setting new_file_name to the character # (hash mark).
e.g., C:\MYDIR\#
This causes Power-QWK to generate a new name of the form
xxxxxnnn.DUN
where xxxxx represents the online service's mail packet name,
truncated to five characters if necessary, and nnn is a number
in the range 001 to 999. Power-QWK always generates a name such
that nnn is one greater than any already existent file with the
same name format.
So, for Direct-Line users, the packet name is DLINE so .QWK
packets would always be renamed to DLINEnnn.DUN.
The first ever such file would be named DLINE001.DUN, the second
would be DLINE002.DUN, and so on.
Using the example given above, these files would always be created
in directory C:\MYDIR. This directory need not be the same as
either your upload or download directories but MUST be on the same
drive as your download directory (i.e., the directory in which you
have told Power-QWK to look for .QWK packets).