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Q W K T X T
QWKTXT.EXE Public Domain as of May 14, 1993 (version 4.07tgm)
QWKTXT40 Public Domain as of February 10, 1991.
QWKTXT.EXE takes a .QWK mail archive downloaded from a BBS & converts the
messages into an ASCII text files. The text files containing the messages
for each individual conference will be of the form:
0001MAIN.514
where "0001" is the conference number, "MAIN" is the first four
letters of the conference name, and "514" is the current month/day.
Why would anyone want such a program? Well, it was written originally
by Jeff Foy so he could backup his QWK files into monthly text archives,
and as a way of learning about the format of the MESSAGES.DAT and
*.NDX files that various mail doors produce. He then released it to the
public domain, with the following notice:
"QWKTXT40 is hereby placed into the Public Domain as of October 27, 1991.
You are free to do with it whatever you wish. If you make any speed
improvements, please drop me a line on how you did it.
Jeffery Foy
c/o Jiffy Software
14509-8th N.E.
Seattle, WA 98155-6945
(206) 362-8158 (weekends only, please)
Fidonet: 1:343/600.7
Internet: jfoy@glia.biostr.washington.edu"
I, Timothy Moeller, have taken this fine software and significantly
modified it to better suit my own purposes, and have corrected a few
minor problems I encountered in Jeff's implementation. Furthermore, I
have recently beefed it up to allow for corrupted message packets,
making it robust enough to resynchronize on corrupted message headers
and continue on without aborting as most other QWK readers do. (This
was specifically obviated by problems with InterNet QWK packets being
received from Channel-1 BBS during the first week of May, 1993.) I am
releasing the executable to the Public Domain as of May 14, 1993,
with the specific intent of aiding my fellow BBS'ers on CHANNEL-1 to
be able to read their InterNet mail.
Timothy Moeller
105 W. Irving Lane
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
(615) 483-8481 (Home)
(615) 483-2232 (Office)
CompuServe:[70531,1153]
InterNet: timothy.moeller@channel1.com
How to run QWKTXT
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QWKTXT requires a DOS system (2.11 or greater) with enough free disk
space to accomodate approximately two times the size of the
uncompressed contents of every .QWK packet to be processed.
Type the following to convert BBS.QWK to ASCII text files:
QWKTXT BBS.QWK<enter>
After QWKTXT has processed the .QWK file, you will be left with a
subdirectory "QWK$TMP" containing the entire contents of the QWK
packet, and subdirectory "QWK$TMP\MESSAGES" containing the converted
text files for each conference (named as described at the beginning
of this document.) If you are not interested in the original contents
of the QWK packet, but only the messages themselves, then you will
have to copy the message files to somewhere else and then delete the
work files in QWK$TMP and both subdirectories.
QWKTXT decompresses your QWK packet into QWK$TMP using PKUNZIP.
Therefore, the QWK packet is expected to be in ZIP format, and
PKUNZIP is expected to be in your execution PATH.
Hope you find this program as helpful as I have recently. Enjoy!
-- Timothy