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Frequently-Asked Questions about uqwk:
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uqwk creates files called control.dat, messages.dat, and *.ndx. How do
I make a QWK packet from those files?
A QWK packet is just a ZIP archive of those files. So a command like
"zip bbs.qwk control.dat messages.dat *.ndx" will create the QWK packet.
If you don't have zip on your Unix system, contact your system
administrator, or download those files and ZIP them on your PC.
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My site gets news from a news server. Can uqwk run in such an
environment?
Yes. Compile the NNTP version of uqwk: make -f Makefile.nntp
See the README.
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uqwk collects my email just fine, but why not my news?
The default behavior is just that. To get uqwk to collect your news,
you have to explicitly ask it with the +n switch. See the man page for
details.
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I tell uqwk to collect my news, but all I get is a bunch of empty *.ndx
files. What's wrong?
You may need the NNTP version of uqwk. See the README on how to compile
the NNTP version. If that fails, your site may be running non-standard
news software. Contact your news administrator for help.
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Our site's mail is not in /usr/spool/mail. Can anything be done?
Our site's news is not in /usr/spool/news. Can anything be done?
Our site's active file is not in /usr/lib/news. Can anything be done?
uqwk has runtime switches to control all these things and many more.
See the man page for details.
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When I use uqwk to post a follow-up, it gets posted to the wrong
newsgroup. What can I do?
Be sure you have the latest version (1.8 at this writing). Also, see
the BUGS section in the man page.
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Is there any way to have uqwk create the packet files somewhere besides
my home directory?
Yes. Use the -H switch to specify where you want the files to be
created. Since uqwk will also look in this directory for the .newsrc
file, you'll probably also have to use the -N switch to tell uqwk where
to find your .newsrc.
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How do I get uqwk to process a QWK reply packet?
A QWK reply packet, usually named something.REP, is simply a ZIP archive
of something.MSG. Unzip the archive, and feed something.MSG to uqwk
thusly: uqwk -m -n -Rsomething.MSG
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How do I get uqwk to process an HDPF reply packet?
Unzip the reply packet. Be sure to use the -U switch of unzip or else
the file names will be mapped to lower case and uqwk won't find them.
Then feed the REPLIES file to uqwk thusly: uqwk -m -n +L -RREPLIES
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How do I get uqwk to process a ZipNews reply packet?
Unzip the reply packet. Then tell uqwk which *directory* the reply
files are in. For example, if they are in your current directory,
invoke uqwk thusly: uqwk -m -n +z -R.
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I have the registered ZipNews reader, but uqwk refuses to process reply
packets. Why?
Be sure to specify "packer : uqwk" in your ZipNews Reader configuration
file.
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Where can I FTP the latest version of uqwk?
ftp.gte.com:/pub/uqwk
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Where can I FTP reader programs?
Numerous QWK readers exist for DOS, Windows, and OS/2. There are far
too many QWK readers to list here. Patrick Y. Lee (patlee@panix.com)
maintains an excellent, exhaustive list which is available from
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/systems/ibmpc/msdos/offline/qwkp9307.zip.
A good number of readers are located in the same directory. One popular
DOS reader that I like is SLMR (slmr21a.zip in the same directory).
Helldiver Packet Viewer (DOS): halcyon.com:/pub/incoming/hpv101b.zip
Usenet Offline Reader (Windows): ftp.gte.com:/pub/unor/unor0030.zip
ZipNews reader (DOS): ftp.gte.com:/pub/zipnews/znr092w.zip
Yarn (DOS, OS/2): oak.oakland.edu:/pub/msdos/offline/yarn-055.zip
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How can I get uqwk to work with my Waffle (Unix version) mailbox?
Try changing the ^A's in the mailbox file to newlines:
tr '\001' '\012' <waffle-mailbox >tmp-mailbox
uqwk -ftmp-mailbox
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