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- From: winston@merk.com (Winston Smith)
- Subject: Re: PABQWK
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.090253.7940@merk.com>
- Organization: Technology Partners, Inc.
- References: <1gu5qqINN79a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 09:02:53 GMT
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- Funny you should mention PABQWK. I have an ATARI 800XL. PABQWK is written
- in compiled TurboXL BASIC. Therefore I can run the PABQWK program on my
- 800XL (to a point... more about this later). While it is true that I do
- not have the space on my 800XL to perform "UNSQUASH"-ing using SUPER-ARC, I
- have found an IBM MAXIMUS BBS that allows the sending of QWK offline
- downloads using LH113 compression, and Bob Puff's UNLZH program handles
- this compression fairly well, performing what it calls a "melt" of the
- archive. Therefore, I can offload "QWK" mail packets and dissolve them.
- The only problem is that PABQWK uses "XE ANTIC MEMORY BANKING" with
- something called the "ACS.COM" memory manager. I can get the QWK-Mail
- archive and successfully dissolve it, I can run PABQWK on my stock 800XL,
- but after the program reads the CONTROL.DAT file, it trys to stuff
- all of the text into an XE RAM bank that doesn't exist! The PABQWK program
- has sort of this fullscreen windowing message reader program. All I really
- want is a program that uncompresses the MESSAGES.DAT "QWK-Mail" archive,
- sequentially, one 128 byte packet at a time. It really doesn't have to
- uncompress an entire QWK-Mail MESSAGES.DAT archive into all of free RAM at
- once. Does one really need an XE to do this? I don't see why a program
- couldn't just "walk incrementally" through a MESSAGES.DAT file of a single
- conference, uncompressing as it goes. Does anyone know what the format of
- the MESSAGES.DAT compressed file, is ?... I mean after it is UNLZH-ed or
- UNARC-ed, it is still in some kind of compressed format. Is it packed
- RADIX-50 ? Is it an ARC ? Is it a COMPRESS ? a ZOO ? an LZH ? (I don't
- suppose that the TurboXL BASIC source code is around anywhere for none XE
- owners? )
-
- P.S. Speaking of source code... is the source code of the John Dunning
- version of KERMIT-65 available anywhere? I'm curious....
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