I've seen a couple instances where my BBS was exchanging a zipped message N>packet (I don't remember if it was via QWK or FTN), and InfoZip's tool was N>unable to unzip it, but the pkzip tool had no problem unzipping it. Since N>then I have switched to the pkzip tool for unzipping.
Right now, I use PKZIP/PKUNZIP for QWK Mail processing (for those
using older MS-DOS QWK Readers), but use ZIP/UNZIP for the FTN packets.
Also, while I have an Areafix password, and a password for my node
connections via Internet Rex, I have removed the packet passwords...as I
don't see a need for them.
As for the QWK readers, I use OLX myself...for whatever reason,
MultiMail kept crashing on me. While the taglines are shorter with OLX,
and I haven't figured out how to copy and paste from files with OLX (I
used Notepad with MultiMail), I'm happy with OLX. I don't think it's registerable anymore...but there are several QWK Mail readers available.
Daryl
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