Hey folks.. I have 3 QWK networks that I am running right now in Synch and would like to bridge them over to FTN in my WinServer package. How does one
go about this? Something I can do right in Sync or do I have other hoops to jump through in order for this to work. I know other networks out there have FTN and QWK capabilities amongst others like NNTP and E-Mail.

I just want to bring the stuff over to my other board via FTN if at all possible.

Thanks!

Black Dragon
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Hello Black,

On 03 Feb 14 11:25, Black Dragon wrote to All:

Hey folks.. I have 3 QWK networks that I am running right now in
Synch and would like to bridge them over to FTN in my WinServer
package. How does one go about this? Something I can do right in
Sync or do I have other hoops to jump through in order for this to
work. I know other networks out there have FTN and QWK capabilities amongst others like NNTP and E-Mail.

I just want to bring the stuff over to my other board via FTN if at
all possible.

It's very possible. Just setup WINServer as an FTN link to your Synchronet system. That should work fine. Then in order to FTN links to see the same messages QWK links do, and vice versa, enable the "Gate Between Net Types" option in SCFG for each Sub-Board's (message area's) "Network Options".

Regards,
Nick

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Re: QWK Networks and FTN
By: Black Dragon to All on Mon Feb 03 2014 11:25:12

Hey folks.. I have 3 QWK networks that I am running right now in Synch
and would like to bridge them over to FTN in my WinServer package. How
does one go about this? Something I can do right in Sync or do I have

Why not just use WCQWK?

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Re: QWK Networks and FTN
By: Black Dragon to All on Mon Feb 03 2014 11:25:12

Hey folks.. I have 3 QWK networks that I am running right now in Synch and would like to bridge them over to FTN in my WinServer package. How does one go about this? Something I can do right in Sync or do I have

Why not just use WCQWK?

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Well.... Good question.. that might be even easier huh? It would have to be a manual process though I think right? I'm reading in the old days of WinServer in order to do QWK networks one needed a comm program to that could run scripts to make the calls and down/up load the packets etc. This I could do manually I guess. Unless there is a better way to automate it? They are running on the same server...
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Hello Black,

On 03 Feb 14 11:25, Black Dragon wrote to All:

Hey folks.. I have 3 QWK networks that I am running right now in
Synch and would like to bridge them over to FTN in my WinServer package. How does one go about this? Something I can do right in
Sync or do I have other hoops to jump through in order for this to work. I know other networks out there have FTN and QWK capabilities amongst others like NNTP and E-Mail.

I just want to bring the stuff over to my other board via FTN if at
all possible.

It's very possible. Just setup WINServer as an FTN link to your Synchronet system. That should work fine. Then in order to FTN links to see the same messages QWK links do, and vice versa, enable the "Gate Between Net Types" option in SCFG for each Sub-Board's (message area's) "Network Options".

Regards,
Nick

Thanks Nick! I'll look into that also. Was wondering how to gate them. :)

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Re: Re: QWK Networks and FTN
By: Black Dragon to KF5QEO on Mon Feb 10 2014 09:14:55

Re: QWK Networks and FTN

Well.... Good question.. that might be even easier huh? It would have
to be a manual process though I think right? I'm reading in the old days
of WinServer in order to do QWK networks one needed a comm program to that could run scripts to make the calls and down/up load the packets etc.
This I could do manually I guess. Unless there is a better way to
automate it? They are running on the same server...

I used to automate it ... The tricky part is getting a script'ed ftp.

I used to use IFTP, there's other programs, they used to have scripts for microsoft ftp program. Either way, change to your winserver directory and use the script to download your .qwk packet from synchronet, then use wcqwk to import, then export, then use ftp to upload the rep packet to synchronet... Sorry, but I'd have to actually install winserver to see the command line and all...

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Re: Re: QWK Networks and FTN
By: Black Dragon to Access Denied on Mon Feb 10 2014 09:16:19

It's very possible. Just setup WINServer as an FTN link to your
Synchronet system. That should work fine. Then in order to FTN links to see the same messages QWK links do, and vice versa, enable the "Gate

Also, just a thought...

manually ftp the QWK packets via IREX or some other program, then move them

to where you want winserver to find them, make a copy of it to Synchronet's data directory, Synchronet will instantly import them, tell wcqwk to import its packet, then export and send it...

You can also setup a news server and link them via NNTP. If you don't open

the port on your router, it will just be inside your network.

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KF5QEO wrote to Black Dragon <=-

could run scripts to make the calls and down/up load the packets etc.
This I could do manually I guess. Unless there is a better way to
automate it? They are running on the same server...

I used to automate it ... The tricky part is getting a script'ed
ftp.

I missed most of this conversation, but I'm guessing this is on a
Win32 box? I wonder if there's a version of "wget" for Win32. I'm
sure there is... I use a custom shell script in Linux along with wget
to FTP download my QWK file, then FTP upload the REP.

Shouldn't be too hard to set up something similar and schedule
periodic executions on Windows, but with a batch file.


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KF5QEO wrote to Black Dragon <=-

could run scripts to make the calls and down/up load the packets etc. This I could do manually I guess. Unless there is a better way to automate it? They are running on the same server...

I used to automate it ... The tricky part is getting a script'ed ftp.

I missed most of this conversation, but I'm guessing this is on a
Win32 box? I wonder if there's a version of "wget" for Win32. I'm
sure there is... I use a custom shell script in Linux along with wget
to FTP download my QWK file, then FTP upload the REP.

Shouldn't be too hard to set up something similar and schedule
periodic executions on Windows, but with a batch file.

Yes I have it working not via batch files actually. And FTP with a
command file. Works like a charm now!

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