Re: Re: QWK Mail
By: Daryl Stout to DIGITAL MAN on Wed May 25 2016 11:19 am

Note that PKZIP/PKUNZIP v2.50 uses a completely different command-line synta DM>from v2.04g. Both should work just fine with "FTN packets" (actually, bundle

pkzip 2.x upgraded from 2.04g uses pretty much the same command line
syntax. you are confused with the console version.

btw, pkzip's version is past 2.x

right now i have v4 with the date 2000
(i'm a registered owner btw and had friends at pkware)
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Re: pkzip
By: Mro to Digital Man on Wed May 25 2016 09:06 pm

Re: Re: QWK Mail
By: Daryl Stout to DIGITAL MAN on Wed May 25 2016 11:19 am

Note that PKZIP/PKUNZIP v2.50 uses a completely different command-line synta DM>from v2.04g. Both should work just fine with "FTN packets" (actually, bundle

pkzip 2.x upgraded from 2.04g uses pretty much the same command line
syntax. you are confused with the console version.

When I talk about PKZIP v2.50, I'm referring to this:
PKZIP(R) Version 2.50 FAST! Compression Utility for Windows 95/NT 4-15-1998 Copyright 1989-1998 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. Shareware Version
PKZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off. Patent No. 5,051,745

It's a console mode program, but nowhere does it says it is "the console version".

The program above (pkzip.exe v2.50) has a different command-line syntax from pkzip.exe v2.04g. If you're talking about a Windows GUI version or something, that's not what I'm talking about. You wouldn't use a Windows GUI version of pkzip for FidoNet automation.

btw, pkzip's version is past 2.x

Of course.

right now i have v4 with the date 2000
(i'm a registered owner btw and had friends at pkware)

I'm a registered owner too. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.

digital man

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Rob,

Is it not possible that your problem was actually with the command-line DM>parameters (i.e. did not make the necessary changes when upgrading from v2.0 DM>to 2.50)?

Possibly...but if it's working with 2.04g, I'm going to go with it.

And just FYI, FTN packets are not zip files. FTN *bundles* may be zip files, DM>but packets are just packets.

Speaking of which, what was the utility you said I could use to tell
where the packets were going?? SBBSECHO puts everything in one directory
if it's an attach mailer, but separate ones if it's an FLO mailer.
However, I have no idea which packet is to go where...and obviously
would like the packets to go to the right nodes.

Daryl

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Re: PKZIP and More
By: Daryl Stout to DIGITAL MAN on Thu May 26 2016 11:10 am

Rob,

Is it not possible that your problem was actually with the command-line DM>parameters (i.e. did not make the necessary changes when upgrading from v2.0 DM>to 2.50)?

Possibly...but if it's working with 2.04g, I'm going to go with it.

And just FYI, FTN packets are not zip files. FTN *bundles* may be zip files, DM>but packets are just packets.

Speaking of which, what was the utility you said I could use to tell
where the packets were going??

ftp://vert.synchro.net/main/bbs/pktdump.exe

It only works on *packets* (*.pkt files) however.

SBBSECHO puts everything in one directory
if it's an attach mailer, but separate ones if it's an FLO mailer.
However, I have no idea which packet is to go where...and obviously
would like the packets to go to the right nodes.

If you're using an attach mailer, then you'll have a *.msg file for each bundle (or packet if no-archive/compression is used by that node). If you're using a FLO mailer, then you'll have a FLO file for each node that has an outbound packet or bundle.

digital man

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